The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin has accused Governor Ayo Fayose of freezing of the account of the assembly and also attacking some of its members.
He made the accusation through a statement by his media aide, Wole Olujobi, alleging that the state House of Assembly was being harassed and intimidated by the state government.Omirin, who has been at loggerheads with Fayose for some time, raised the alarm on Wednesday, 12 November.
He said, “Governor Fayose’s reactions to refusal by APC members to dump their party for PDP are going beyond approved standards of modern governance.” Continue after the cut...
But the Speaker refuted the claims, saying it was not true that the House of Assembly constituted a stumbling block to Fayose’s bid to constitute his cabinet.Fayose had earlier accused the members of the assembly of planning to make the state ungovernable and carrying out a plot by leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which are in the majority in the assembly.
He said, “the standard practice is to present the list of the nominees in the plenary while the nominees will follow with the submission of their credentials. They will be screened before confirmation.”
The governor sent three nominees on Monday and the list was read in the plenary that day. Since it is a public document, we read the letter second day in the plenary. Nobody submitted any credential. We don’t know the nominees. They have not submitted their credentials for the appropriate committees to screen them. It is surprising that the governor expects the assembly to confirm the nominees as sent.”
Omirin also said the attention of the governor was drawn to the case on the local government as responsible for its handicap to treat his request for the reconstitution of the local councils.
According to him, “police and PDP thugs, in the wee hours of Wednesday, stormed and ransacked the home of Mr Kayode Fasakin representing Ekiti West constituency II, Kehinde Boluwade and Olaseinde Ogunrinde, all APC members.”
He said the governor reacted to their action by allegedly “freezing the bank accounts of the House of Assembly” and warned that “the governor will have himself to blame if he continues in his anti-democratic conducts.”
Fayose reacted to the allegations on the accounts of the assembly through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, who said, “The allegations are very untrue. Governor Ayo Fayose has not ordered the freezing of account of the State House of Assembly and neither has the governor asked anybody to either insult or assault the speaker.”
He added, “The speaker is only playing politics and, in the process, maligning Governor Fayose,” adding that “the speaker should understand that today, Fayose is his governor, and the office is sacred.”
“If he in the name of politics continues to denigrate that office, he is denigrating Ekiti people. Also, if Omirin-led assembly has refused to screen the nominees sent to them, it is a disservice to Ekiti people. They should know that they have not bruised Fayose by their actions but Ekiti people, who earnestly demand for progress and good governance by voting for Fayose.”
He said: “Ekiti people are watching them and their dirty politics. If anybody has assaulted him, the police are there to report the matter to instead of alleging the governor of threatening his life.”
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