Stop dreaming of being the acting governor - Fayose tells Ekiti Speaker

As APC accuses Fayose of reversing Ekiti’s progress

By Gbenga Ariyibi & Gbenga Oke

The Ekiti Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, has advised the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, to respect his office and stop dreaming of being made the acting governor of the state.

FAYOSE—Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State (M), taking Oath of Office before the Chief Judge of Ekiti, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday. With them is the governor’s wife, Mrs Feyisetan Fayose. Photo: Dare Fasube

Speaking in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday through his Special Assistant on Public Communication and New Media, Mr. Lere Olayinka, the governor berated the speaker for statements credited to him in some Sunday national newspapers in which he said damning evidence came out against Fayose during the hearing of the election petition filed by the All Progressives Congress.

He also advised Omirin to behave responsibly in honour of his exalted office and stop seeing himself as the Speaker of the APC, who is under the control of his party leaders.

But the Speaker has denied addressing a press conference in Lagos where he allegedly told reporters that he would be made the Acting Governor that would conduct a rerun governorship election in January.

He also denied a report on the state television station,EKTV, stating that he addressed a press conference in Lagos where he allegedly told reporters that he would be the Acting Governor that would conduct a rerun governorship election in January.

Omirin, claimed he was no where near Lagos of recent and so he had no contact with reporters to make that unfounded comment, said the report allegedly sponsored by the governor was another blackmail to kill the institutions of government to receive undeserved public sympathy by him (Fayose).

Olayinka maintained that, “It is known to everyone in Ekiti that the speaker even made preparations in readiness for his assumption of office as acting governor on October 16. Obviously, from the tone of the press statement issued by the speaker, which was published in some newspapers today, the speaker is still day-dreaming about his ambition to be acting governor.

“For him to have claimed that Governor Fayose was a perjurer and certificate forger, and that damning reports of alleged fraud were established at the hearings of the election petitions tribunal, Dr. Omirin has further exposed the content of his inner mind as regards his desperate ambition to be acting governor.

being wrought on the state by the new administration.

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Stop dreaming of being the acting governor - Fayose tells Ekiti Speaker