Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
The
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has vowed to lead a robust and
engaging opposition against the All Progressives Congress in the country
in general and in the South-West in particular.
In a statement he personally issued on
Wednesday in Ado Ekiti, the governor said he had become a “prime
demolition target” of the APC national leadership because of his “overt
and unalloyed support for President Goodluck Jonathan during the
campaigns.”
Women in Ikere Ekiti on Wednesday have
also issued a seven-day ultimatum to the 19 APC lawmakers to back down
from the impeachment proceeding against Fayose or they would “invoke the
gods” against them.
The women in their hundreds started the
protest as early as 5am at Oke Oja Area in Ikere Ekiti and danced round
the town while chanting anti-APC lawmakers songs.
They warned that any attempt to impeach Fayose would spark violence in the state.
A senator-elect for Ekıtı North
Senatorıal dıstrıct, Mr. Duro Faseyı, also warned the lawmakers led by
the embattled Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omırın, agaınst settıng the state on
fıre.
In a statement made avaılable to newsmen
ın Ado Ekıtı, Faseyı descrıbed the last mınute’s ımpeachment threat
agaınst the governor as “unnecessary vegeance and polıtıcal error.”
Meanwhile, the Ekiti Council of Elders
has promised to summon Fayose and the 19 APC lawmakers to a peace
meeting to end the lingering crisis between the executive and the
legislature.
Rising from an emergency meeting on
Wednesday, the council in a press statement signed by its Chairman,
Prof. Tunde Oluwasanmi and the Chairman, Committee for the Creation of
Ekiti State, Chief Deji Fasuan, lamented the crisis rocking the state.
Fayose promised to remain loyal to Jonathan and be his last man standing even if all Nigerians deserted him.
He stated, “I wish to declare
unequivocally that I remain loyal to President Jonathan even after May
29 as my support for his re-election and administration was not about
bread-and-butter.”
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