A peace meeting brokered by the elders of Ekiti State was yesterday shunned by the 19 All Progressives Congress members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly over their believe Governor Ayo Fayose was not ready to have the crisis resolved once and for all.The meeting which held at the private university of legal luminary, Afe Babalola amidst tight security had Governor Fayose and the seven Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers attended the meeting.Other personalities at the meeting were, Chief Deji Fasuan, a retired permanent secretary in the old Western Region and Co-Chairman, Ekiti Council of Elders, former Minister of National Planning, Chief Ayo Ogunlade, former Secretary General of the Yoruba Council of Elders, Dr Kunle Olajide, among others.

Also in attendance at the meeting were, the state Police Commissioner, Mr Joshua Ibine and the Director of the Department of State Services, Mr Duke Fubara, who led over 200 security personnel  to provide security at the meeting

.Explaining the reason for the action, the APC lawmaker said they are not comfortable with the security arrangement of 200 policemen said to have been made to protect them into and out of Ado-Ekiti which, according to them, had given away the motive of the meeting.The APC lawmakers wondered why the peace effort would include provision of security to escort them out of the state instead of escorting them to the House of Assembly to continue their legislative duties.

The lawmakers in a statement issued on Thursday by the Special Adviser (Media) to the Speaker, Wole Olujobi, said their resolve on the rule of law and defence of the Constitution should not be subsumed under the need to pay them their entitlements which was one of the resolutions agreed at the meeting.They said: “We cannot hold any meeting on the basis of monetary settlement in isolation of the consideration of the constitutional breaches by the governor.“It is amazing that the truce terms will not include resumption of our duties?, but just to settle us monetarily and escorting us out of Ekiti State.”Picking holes in the entire arrangement for the meeting, the lawmakers wondered why the governor was announcing the peace meeting intermittently on the state media while secretly mobilising Peoples Democratic Party members from the 16 local government areas in the state to storm the venue of the meeting.“What is this all about if not coded incitement for mob attacks?” the lawmakers queried?.They also insisted that the security agents told them in clear terms that they could not guarantee their security and warned them against passing through the streets of Ado-Ekiti to the venue of the meeting?.

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