Governor Ayo dele Fayose, at the end of a victory
procession round Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital yesterday, declared a total
conquest of his political enemies with a warning that any further uprising
would lead to the premature political death of such instigators.
The governor spoke upon the inauguration of a new
State House of Assembly entirely composed of his associates in the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP. The new speaker, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, himself, a
former Chief of Staff to Fayose during his first advent, promptly pledged to
toe a different line from the antagonism that characterised the relationship
between Fayose and the immediate past House of Assembly controlled by the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Governor Ayo Fayose Acknowledge the cheers for their
supporters during his Thank you tour in Ado Ekiti on Friday
Fayose who said he had forgiven the 19 former APC
lawmakers who instigated the impeachment motion against him also absolved
President Muhammadu Buhari of complicity in the political battles that were
recently waged against him. The governor who said intelligence reports at his
disposal distanced the president from his troubles was also quick to assert
that the president did not wish him any ill-feelings.
The end of the governor’s troubles came on Thursday
with the end of the tenure of the Fourth Ekiti State House of Assembly that was
dominated with the APC which had 19 members compared to the seven members of
the governor’s PDP. Supporters of the governor including commercial
motorcyclists and other hangers-on had for days laid siege to the House of
Assembly complex to prevent the 19 APC members from having access to the
chamber. Other supporters also mounted roadblocks at strategic entry points into
the state with the express determination of stopping the legislators who were
allegedly based in Oshogbo, Osun State from entering the state.
Having succeeded in their aim of preventing the
legislators from proceeding with their plans of impeaching the governor, the
governor and his associates yesterday went on a victory procession through the
streets of the state capital. Governor Fayose had called out the people of the
state in a broadcast he made on Thursday.
While thanking the people for the support given to him
in stopping the impeachment move, the governor said:
“I am a man destined for greatness and with the power
of God, nobody can bring me down. I have defeated my enemies during elections,
and now I defeated impeachment”, Fayose stated.
“The President had said that he had no enemy to fight.
He said he has put the past behind him and why are the APC lawmakers still bent
on impeaching me? What is their own in this matter?” Fayose asked.
“I won’t behave like them. I am going to give to all
that is due to them, not only the G7 alone”, he clarified.
The governor, equally pledged to work with the new
Assembly for the overall interest of the people of the state.
Fayose, however, cautioned the new Speaker against
being propelled by the kind of inordinate ambition he said that controlled
former speakers of the House.
“Whoever thinks he would impeach his governor and the
Deputy for him to become the Acting Governor always ends being destroyed. You
have to learn from history. Those who impeached me the other time have died
politically today.
He equally admonished the new lawmakers to operate
like a family.
“I believe all of you, I mean lawmakers knew that
whoever attacks the new speaker is attacking Fayose? I think you know that?” he
said.
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