The confrontation between Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and the state House of Assembly heightened on Wednesday with the government sealing off a filling station belonging to the Speaker, Adewale Omirin.
The speaker’s filling station, T. Five Integrated Service, is one of the four the government closed down in Ado-Ekiti to avert “unimaginable fire accident with attendant fatalities.”
The government, in a statement by the Chief
Press Secretary to the governor, Idowu Adelusi,
directed all the owners of the affected filling
stations to report at the Ministry of Housing,
Physical Planning and Urban Development with
letters of approval.
Reacting to the closure, Omirin alleged that
the governor ordered the closure of the filling
station in order to intimidate and coerce him.
Omirin, a member of the All Progressives
Congress and Fayose of the Peoples Democratic
Party are believed to be at loggerheads.
The speaker vowed in a statement by his
Special Adviser (Media), Wole Olujobi, not to
“buckle under undue political pressure to
abandon his party for the PDP for selfish and
pecuniary motives.”
He said that he met all the necessary
environmental laws and got the necessary
approval for the station.
The speaker wondered why the governor
would start victimising those who did not share
his political belief.
The statement quoted Omirin as saying that
another assembly member, Joseph Olugbemi,
had told him that the governor had made up
his mind to close the filling station over his
refusal to join the PDP.
Olugbemi is one of the six APC members that
defected to the PDP on the day Fayose was
inaugurated as the new governor of the state.
Omirin recalled that he had earlier promised
the governor that the assembly would work
with him in the interest of Ekiti people, to
deliver dividends of democracy.
He said, “I called the governor to confirm what
the honourable member told me about the
plan to close my filling station. The governor
denied any such plan, swearing that he would
not pursue any victimisation agenda against his
opponents.
“But only yesterday(Wednesday), the governor
ordered the closure of the filling station, citing
environmental factor.”
Omirin said he had a background of political
fidelity anchored on progressive democratic
practice and so would not abandon the
principle in pursuit of selfish agenda .
According to him, the present atmosphere in
the state does not call for high-handedness and
persecution of opponents.
He warned that attacks on the opponents,
particularly the lawmakers, would only smear
the relationship between the Executive and
Legislature.
But Fayose’s media aide denied that the
decision to seal off the speaker’s filling station
and others had any political undertone.
In a telephone interview with our
correspondent, Adelusi maintained that, “Those
filling stations sealed off by the Ministry of
Physical and Urban Planning were because they
contravened environmental laws.
“They were sited within residential areas. They
are not supposed to be within the residential
areas.
“They are not the only filling stations in the
state capital. If they didn’t comply with the
environmental laws, the law should take its
course. It has no political undertone.
“Four filling stations were sealed off but it is an
ongoing thing. The exercise will take place
throughout the state. It is to sanitise the state
and prevent fire (outbreak.)”
Fayose has however approved the appointment
of Mr. Samuel Adeyemi as the Chairman, Ekiti
State Petroleum Products Consumer Protection
Agency.
The appointment takes immediate effect.
Fayose will today (Thursday) swear in Justice
Emmanuel Omotoso as judge of the Ekiti State
High Court.



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I have no sympathy for Ekiti state, they got what they bargain for. We all know people don’t change and there shouldn’t be a second chance. They should keep quiet and endure their pain for the next four year.

And it begins......

PEOPLE WILL BE COMPLAINING AND BLAMING FAYOSE, THIS SAME THING HAPPENED IN EDO STATE, WHEN OSHOMOLE ASSUME POWER, HE WAS ALL OVER, BOB IZUA SHUTTING ALL HIS PARK, DISTURBING ALL HIS BUSINESS, UNTILL BOB IZUA EVENTUALLY JOINED APC. SO NO ONE SHOULD COMPLAIN ABT FAYOSE. FILLING STATIONS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE STATIONED IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS. SO LET HIM DO THE NEEDFUL

APC crying foul all the time. Why site a filling station in residential areas abi you dey like human suya ni

Ayekotoo:
I have no sympathy for Ekiti state, they got what they bargain for. We all know people don’t change and there shouldn’t be a second chance. They should keep quiet and endure their pain for the next four year.

And who told you Ekiti people are complaining. Abi the speaker of APC led House of Assembly is 'Ekiti people'?

Ayekotoo:
I have no sympathy for Ekiti state, they got what they bargain for. We all know people don’t change and there shouldn’t be a second chance. They should keep quiet and endure their pain for the next four year.

And who told you Ekiti people are complaining. Abi the speaker of APC led House of Assembly is 'Ekiti state'?

linsa01:


And who told you Ekiti people are complaining. Abi the speaker of APC led House of Assembly is 'Ekiti people'?

My brother, we are complaining. I hope we r not back to square one in Ekiti.