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> Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described his governorship
> as a mandate freely and wholeheartedly given by Ekiti people, saying;
> “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.”
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> According to his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New
> Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor also urged the Chief Justice of
> Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, to sustain his stand of not
> allowing the use of the judiciary to change the outcome of elections.
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> Fayose, who described the noise of impeachment and Supreme Court
> judgment being made by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a plot
> 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 (PDP) in the State not to
> be distracted from their goal of delivering all the 26 Assembly seats
> in the State to the party.
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> He said; “Sovereignty belongs to the people and the people of Ekiti
> State on June 21, 2014, surrendered their sovereignty to me to be
> their governor for four years.
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> “Instead of respecting the wish of Ekiti people, which they again
> affirmed on March 28 and will further affirm on April 4, the APC
> people that were rejected in two free and fair elections have been
> trying all tricks to return to power through the back door.
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> “They filed several cases in their bid to stop my inauguration as
> governor and even committed murder in the process.”
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> Speaking further, Governor Fayose said; “The Speaker of the State
> House of Assembly then, Dr Adewale Omirin was assured of assuming
> office as Acting Governor and that informed his non-attendance of my
> inauguration, as he was still hoping that even on October 16, 2014, a
> court order would be gotten to stop my inauguration.
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> “Their evil plots against the mandate of Ekiti people failed then, but
> up to now, they are not relenting.
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> “Today, even though Omirin has been duly impeached, he still believes
> he can be Acting Governor while Dr Kayode Fayemi that was roundly
> rejected by Ekiti people is also boasting that he will return to power
> through the instrumentality of the court.
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> “However, let me warn the APC as a party to respect the wish of Ekiti
> people as the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan respected the wish
> of Nigerians on the election of Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd).
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> “Any attempt to undermine the sovereignty of Ekiti people, using
> whatever instrument will be resisted by the people themselves because
> power belongs to the people and they have handed it to whom they
> desire to exercise till October 16, 2018.
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> “The APC gladiators in Ekiti should therefore emulate President
> Jonathan and the PDP by waiting till 2018 to try their luck again.”
