The 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly have vowed to go on with the impeachment proceedings against Governor Ayo Fayose.
The embattled governor, Ayo Fayose
The resolve by the lawmakers come as media reports yesterday, April 25, suggested that an Abuja High Court has restrained the 19 legislators from impeaching the governor.
But the lawmakers have alleged that there was a misrepresentation of the proceeding in the ex-parte motion filed by the seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) colleagues at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Adewale Omirin, speaker of the house, in a statement yesterday said there was no such pronouncement from the court.
He said : “While the judge clearly ruled that it (court) could not stop Fayose’s impeachment without hearing from the APC lawmakers, the governor’s storm troopers went to town in a contempt of court to turn full circle the ruling by the judge.”
Omirin accused Governor Fayose of imbibing impunity and manipulation of facts of his impeachment case in the media. Adding that such schemes would not work.
He said:”He first raided the courts and chased the judges under their tables and subsequently closed the courts. After that, he closed the House of Assembly and chased the lawmakers out of town.
“Then it is the turn of the Fourth Estate of the Realm, the media, in a mindless fraud and manipulation of the press to have an upper hand in the face of flagrant trampling on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Just a few days ago, the governor’s agents hacked into Channels Television’s website to plant a story implicating Speaker Adewale Omirin and Senator Babafemi Ojuduý as engaging in impeachment funding fraud totalling N250 million.”
He accused Fayose of creating for himself a reputation as an enemy of the state by killing all democratic institutions in a bid to stay in power by all means.
Meanwhile, Governor Fayose and the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba have described the political stalemate in Ekiti as being blown out of proportion.
The duo who spoke on Thursday, April 23, at the launch of the NLC Delegates’ Conference in Ado Ekiti, the state capital said the impression created in the minds of outsiders that the state had been permanently engulfed by crisis due to the impeachment saga was false.
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