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The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, on Wednesday opened up on the relationship between the lawmakers and Governor Ayo Fayose saying “the state is being ruled by a maximum ruler and a dictator who runs his administration on lies and falsehood.”
Omirin who also cleared the air on the statement he was reported to have made earlier on Tuesday to the effect that no assassination attempt was made on his life.
He also condemned a story aired by the radio and television channels of the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State (BSES) in which the stations claimed that he (Omirin) was misled in the recent actions taken by the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers.
Addressing a news conference in his Aisegba-Ekiti country home in Gbonyin local government area of the state, Omirin revealed that what was in the undertaking he signed at the state police command was that he did not see suspected assassins that came to his Ado-Ekiti residence Monday night but concerned residents called to inform him of the presence of strange men outside his home.
The speaker explained that he never said his life was threatened by the coming of the unknown persons, saying what he said at the police headquarters tallied with the content of the statement issued by his media aide, Wole Olujobi.
He said Fayose has practically made it impossible for the APC lawmakers to perform their legislative functions by writing to the police to arrest them immediately on arrival in the state and at the same time accusing them of abandoning their duty post.
He revealed that the governor has stopped the salaries of all the APC lawmakers “even when he lacks the constitutional powers to do so” noting that Fayose is emulating the impunity and illegality being carried out at the federal level by his party.
Speaking on why they held a sitting at a secret location, Omirin who said the Standing Order and the Constitution empower them to do so when their lives are in danger, adding that “abnormal situation calls for abnormal solutions.”
Omirin went on: “Few days after our last sitting, the governor wrote to the Commissioner of Police that we should be arrested and I told him that all of us are ready for arrest and there is no law stopping us from sitting anywhere if our lives are under threat.
“The governor has been calling for my head since then and I don’t think that the governor has a genuine love for Ekiti State because each time we are coming to the state, he would accuse us of bringing thugs to the state which is not true.”
