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Ekiti: Fayemi meets Fayose, pledges not to challenge election result

Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti state

Ekiti APC lawmakers’ protest in Lagos shameful – Fayose

byPremium Times
November 25, 2014
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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has described as a “show of shame” a protest held at the Lagos State Secretariat, Ikeja, by the All Progressives Congress, APC, members of the Ekiti House of Assembly.

He said by holding the protest in faraway Lagos, the lawmakers had confirmed that they were being “remote-controlled” from the state.

Mr. Fayose spoke through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.

The 26-member Ekiti Assembly was thrown into crisis last Monday when seven Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members sat to approve the appointment of three commissioner-nominees, 12 special advisers to the governor and chairmen of the caretaker committees of the 16 local government areas of the state.

They sat in the absence of the Speaker, Adewale Omirin and his deputy, Adetunji Orisalade, who were in Lagos with 17 other APC lawmakers.

The following day, the state government fired all the aides to the speaker and deputy speaker.

On Thursday, the seven lawmakers purportedly impeached Messrs. Omirin and Orisalade. Dele Olugbemi and Abeni Olayinka were picked to replace them.

The speaker and his deputy condemned their purported sack, saying it was an abuse of the constitution.

Mr. Olayinka said the APC lawmakers, who protested in Lagos, should as well declare themselves as members of Lagos State House of Assembly II.

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He said it was more shameful that the APC lawmakers were led in the protest by the Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, and submitted a protest letter to Governor Babatunde Fashola.

Mr. Olayinka asked the APC lawmakers to return to Ekiti, and stop running from media houses in Lagos to Lagos State secretariat. He noted that they were elected to perform legislative duties in Ekiti and not Lagos.

“Going to the Lagos State Secretariat in Alausa, Ikeja to protest on issues bordering on governance in Ekiti State is no doubt a clear demonstration that the APC lawmakers have totally sold their minds and dignity to their party’s Lagos-based political merchants,” he said.

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“The question is, why were they protesting in front of Lagos State secretariat, when they were elected to perform legislative duties in Ekiti? Why are they on self-exile?

“Shouldn’t they have come back to Ekiti to join Governor Ayodele Fayose to rescue the State from the financial mess the APC government of Dr Kayode Fayemi plunged it to?”

 

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