Governor Ayodele Fayose |
Twenty-three members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly on Friday
passed a vote of confidence on the state Governor Ayodele Fayose, while
dissociating themselves from the purported plot to impeach the Governor.
Armed policemen allegedly laid siege to the Assembly premises on
Wednesday night to pave way for the three lawmakers of the opposition
All Progressives Congress (APC) to reconvene the plenary, a week after
the members have gone on recess.
The move was condemned by Speaker Kolawole Oluwawole at a press
briefing on Friday, where he alleged that the signature of the Assembly
clerk was forged in a letter purportedly written to request for police
cover.
But the spokesman of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Samuel
Omotoso, who spoke with newsmen on behalf of the 23 members at the
Government House in Ado-Ekiti, said they came on a solidarity visit to
Governor Fayose.
He also expressed displeasure at the siege to the Assembly by
security agents, saying that the members are solidly behind the
Governor.
Omotoso said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers were fully
in support of the move by the party to retrieve Olusola Eleka’s mandate
which was allegedly stolen from him at the recently-concluded
governorship election.
He said, “We are here on solidarity visit to the Governor of Ekiti
State, Dr Ayodele Fayose and to show our displeasure to the stealing of
the mandate freely given to Prof kolapo Olusola. We also want to use
this medium to register our displeasure to the illegality being
perpetrated by security agencies threatening to make the state
ungovernable.
“As you can see, we are 23 members and 21 is present here. Mrs Titi
Owolabi is not here because she is bereaved, and one of us travels
oversea. We are 26 members; three are on the other side. We are united
and irrevocably committed to the cause of Fayose.
“We are solidly behind him and our party the PDP. We support the
decision of the party to go to court to retrieve the stolen mandate and
also to tell the whole world that if 23 members are on the same page, we
want to see how they want to use three members to perpetrate illegality
in the state.
“The tenure of this Governor runs out on October 16 and by the grace
of God, he will complete his tenure. We are elected members by our
constituents and we will do all the needful to make sure that the
interest of our people will be protected. We are very loyal to the cause
of our Governor. We are solidly behind him and he will triumph over all
his enemies,” he said.
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