The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State on Thursday
declared that the alleged subterranean moves to impeach Governor
Ayodele Fayose would lead to the total collapse of the administration of
President Muhamadu Buhari, if eventually carried out.
The party said it was reasonable and justifiable that the governor
wrote the Acting Chief Justice of the Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen,
informing him of the alleged moves to co-opt a section of the judiciary
to the devilish plot.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Thursday,
the PDP State Chairman, Gboyega Oguntuase, cautioned that the alleged
plot to remove the governor would create crisis of monumental proportion
that would be difficult for the Nigeria Army to curtail.
Oguntuase described Fayose as a man of the people and the
opposition leader in the country, who commanded enormous followership
across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
“Governor Fayose is not just the Governor of Ekiti State, but the
opposition voice in Nigeria. He speaks for all the oppressed Nigerians
in the Southwest, South East, South-South, North Central and even in the
far North.
“Removing Governor Fayose from the power is like removing the whole
Ekiti who voted for him in all the 16 local government areas of this
state. Any war wage against our governor will be resisted by the people
from all these zones.
“Governor Fayose has been the most consistent critic of President
Buhari’s government, particularly against the poorly managed economy
leading to this recession. So, all Nigerians will rise against this evil
plot.
“If you look at the results of the 2014 governorship poll, you
would think it was a tsunami because he won in all the 16 local
governments. If truly democracy still remains the government of the
people, then attempt to remove Governor Fayose will be tantamount to
usurpation of the people’s power,” he said.
Fayose had in the letter to the CJN accused former Governor Segun
Oni and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, of
clandestine moves to coerce the judiciary to use Army Panel report to
reverse his election victory.
He prayed the CJN to resist the move by preserving democracy and the integrity of the judiciary.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress in the state has reacted
to Fayose’s accusation that the party was plotting the manipulation of
the judiciary to re-open the Army Panel report on the 2014 governorship
poll to have his election victory reversed.
The APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, scoffed at the
allegation, describing it as the “ranting of a notorious blackmailer,
electoral robber, political harlot and a pathological liar.”
Accusing Fayose of crying wolf where none existed, Olatunbosun said
there was no meeting where Fayemi and Oni met to boast that he would be
removed, noting that the governor was only jittery and afraid of the
consequences of his many infractions on the law.
Olatunbosun said, “Fayemi and Oni are too decent and busy in their
assignments to engage in such frivolous boasts that Fayose is accusing
them of. Their track records as democrats and ‘Omoluabi’ are there for
all to see.
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