The Ekiti State Government has accused the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Adewale Omirin, of making desperate bid of frustrating the new administration in the state headed by Ayo Fayose, by ordering the state House of Assembly to go on a one-month recess.
According to the statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Saturday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Idowu Adelusi, described the excuse given by the Omirin for his action as lame.
Omirin had in a statement by his image maker, Wale Olujobi, said the lawmakers would be going on a one month recess to allow for possible change of guard by the personnel of the Assembly.
Adelusi said the main reason why the Speaker has declared the one month recess was to frustrate the passage of the 2015 budget by his colleagues so that the government would be handicapped and incapacitated from performing its statutory functions to the people of the state
The governor’s image maker further accused Hon. Omirin of attempts to make the present government unpopular within the fold of lawmakers, urging him to purge himself of destructive tendencies and chart a new course.
He reminded Omirin that being a critical stakeholder in the project of development of the state, he (Omirin) should see himself as one of the leaders in the state who must see the development of the state as paramount, rather than pursuing parochial selfish interest.
Adelusi said Omirin had been promised the position of acting governor in the failed judicial coup by his party, the All Progressives Congress, in the dying days of the administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi.
He urged Omirin to swim with the tide of the moment by supporting the present administration to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people of the state who voted Fayose in as their governor in the June 21 governorship election.
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