The offences
bordered on impunity, brigandage, stalking and other constitutional breaches
including alleged invasion of the House of Assembly with thugs and miscreants,
instigating an unconstitutional takeover of the House by seven legislators to
sit in contravention of Section 96(2) of the 1999 Constitution, and prevention
of the 19 APC legislators from performing their duties with the use of security
agents and armed thugs.
Other
allegations listed in the notice are: sponsoring an unlawful impeachment
process in the house, spending Ekiti State funds without the requisite
constitutional approval in contravention of the constitution and running the
government without legally constituted Executive Council in contravention of
Section 192(2) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They also accused the
governor of operating an illegal 2014 budget as well as sponsoring and
instigating illegal sitting of the House in contravention of Section 96(1) of
the Constitution.
Meantime,
Fayose was, yesterday, said to have described his governorship as a mandate
freely and wholeheartedly given by Ekiti people, saying; “Ekiti people who are
the owners of my mandate will defend it against political usurpers, whom they
had rejected twice in the last nine months.”
According to
his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
the governor also urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud
Mohammed, to sustain his stand of not allowing the use of the judiciary to
change the outcome of elections.
Fayose, who
described the impeachment bid and Supreme Court judgment being made by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) as plots to distract him from concentrating on
governance and the coming Saturday’s House of Assembly election, called on
members and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State not
to be distracted from their goal of delivering all the 26 Assembly seats in the
State to the party.
He said,
“Sovereignty belongs to the people and the people of Ekiti State on June 21,
2014, surrendered their sovereignty to me to be their governor for four years.
Instead of respecting the wish of Ekiti people, which they again affirmed on
March 28 and will further affirm on April 11, the APC people that were rejected
in two free and fair elections have been trying all tricks to return to power
through the back door. They filed several cases in their bid to stop my
inauguration as governor and even committed murder in the process.”
Speaking
further, Governor Fayose said, “The Speaker of the State House of Assembly
then, Dr Adewale Omirin, was assured of assuming office as Acting
Governor and that informed his non-attendance of my inauguration, as he was
still hoping that even on October 16, 2014, a court order would be gotten to
stop my inauguration. Their evil plots against the mandate of Ekiti people
failed then, but up to now, they are not relenting. Today, though Omirin has
been duly impeached, he still believes he can be Acting Governor while Dr.
Kayode Fayemi that was roundly rejected by Ekiti people is also boasting that
he will return to power through the instrumentality of the court.
“However, let
me warn the APC as a party to respect the wish of Ekiti people as the PDP and
President Goodluck Jonathan respected the wish of Nigerians on the election of
Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd). Any attempt to undermine the sovereignty
of Ekiti people, using whatever instrument will be resisted by the people
themselves because power belongs to the people and they have handed it to whom
they desire to exercise till October 16, 2018. The APC gladiators in Ekiti
should, therefore, emulate President Jonathan and the PDP by waiting till 2018
to try their luck again.”
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