Impeachment plot: I won’t be distracted, says Fayose

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said he would not be distracted by the impeachment plot of the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers.

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

The embattled Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin, has forwarded a notice of gross misconduct to the governor, while a copy of the notice was also sent to his deputy, Dr. Olusola Eleka.

But Fayose has advised the APC lawmakers to stop acting like “jesters,” describing the purported impeachment notice as the “joke of the century.”

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Taiwo Lakanu, has beefed up security in Ado Ekiti.

Lakanu said 24 hours security surveillance had been put in place, particularly around the State House of Assembly and other flash points in the state.

Lakanu said, “I have emplaced security. Personnel have been placed on alert while high visibility patrol is being conducted around Ado Ekiti.

“We knew the tension generated must have caused some apprehension, but we are being proactive because the security of lives and property and general peace of the people is our topmost priority.

“We are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the safety of our citizens and for everybody to go about their normal business without fear or harassment.”

Commenting on the impeachment notice on Sunday, Fayose in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, described his governorship as a mandate freely and wholeheartedly given by Ekiti people.

“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,” he said.

He also urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria, 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 plot as a plan 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 in the State not to be distracted from delivering all the 26 Assembly seats to the party.

Impeachment plot: I won’t be distracted, says Fayose