The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has carpeted the former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, on his admittance of collecting money from the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose.
The party challenged Omirin to explain the purpose of the money he confessed to have collected from the governor of the state and justify the sensibility in collecting such huge amount of money in this situation of financial mess, which his party, the All Progressives Congress, had dragged the state into in its vengeful missions.
In a statement issued by the PDP on Sunday and signed by its Chairman, Chief Idowu Faleye, the party wants the embattled former speaker to tell the whole world the reason why he decided to be collecting N200,000 for fueling whenever he visited Fayose in his office.
It will be recalled that the speaker had confessed in one of his interviews with the press that he and his colleagues did collect N200,000 each time they visited Fayose in his office after the governor’s swearing in.
Faleye described the action of the speaker as a fashion of corruption and indecency, saying that any reasonable person should know that it is only a corruptible mind that will be collecting such huge amount of money on every visit to the governor and still claim to be honourable.
He condemned the decision by Dr. Omirin and his APC colleagues to be running from Lagos State to Osub State without coming to the Ekiti State House of Assembly to perform the functions they were elected for, adding that the former speaker and his co travellers in this barbaric and unpatriotic course should bury their heads in shame for denying their state good and robust legislation.
He said they have rather turned themselves into opposition of Ekiti State renascence.
The PDP boss also took a swipe at the former speaker’s statement that he and his colleagues sat and carried out some legislative duties when there was nothing of such nature, saying Omirin should mature enough to be asked of the location and time of the sitting either within Ekiti State or outside.
He said this was another clear bigotry and political madness.
ccording to Faleye, there was nowhere in the world where such sitting took place and that the APC legislators have resulted to the machinery of lies and brigade of blackmail suddenly because they discovered that the whole Ekiti State people have resolved that they are not fit be called men and women of honour again going by their unpatriotic attitudes.