Ekiti APC lawmakers want Christmas largesse from their Lagos sponsors – Fayose’s aide

The Ekiti State Government has described claim by embattled lawmakers elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress that they had plenary sitting in Ado Ekiti on Friday as a ploy to get fresh attention from their Lagos State-based sponsors so as to be able to get some money to celebrate Christmas and New year.

The Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, who stated this in a statement said: “The APC lawmakers only succeeded in advertising their drunkenness by sending press release and photographs taken in a beer parlour to the press, claiming that they sat and took decisions as Ekiti State House of Assembly. “

The ousted speaker, Rt. Hon. Adewale Omirin, had told journalists on the telephoneon Friday that the 19 aggrieved lawmakers on the APC platform held plenary and some decisions, including sacking the speaker, Hon. Dele Olugbemi, and reversal of all the decisions taken by the Olugbemi-led Assembly since the impeachment of Omirin and his deputy, Adetunji Orisalade.

Olayinka said: “Having been abandoned by their Lagos based party leaders, who had promised them eldorado, the runaway lawmakers needed to make some noise in the media so as to be noticed once again.

“Most importantly, having wasted their resources on hotel bills, ogogoro and women of easy virtue in Lagos,  they must be desperately in need of money to celebrate Christmas and New year.

“That’s the reason they gathered in a beer parlour somewhere in Idi-Oro, Mushin, Lagos and placed a toy in front of Omirin as mace, took his picture and send it to the press , claiming that a sitting of the Ekiti State House of Assembly took place.

“The APC lawmakers dribbled themselves beyond the field of play by going to court to challenge Omirin’s impeachment and having done that, they ought to know that until the court decides on the case they filed, Omirin’s impeachment stands.”

On Omirin’s admittance that the APC lawmakers took N200,000 each for fuel from Fayose, Olayinka said: “With that coming from Omirin himself, it is now clear that they actually demanded N135 million bribe from the governor.

“Or isn’t it strange that supposed Progressives would collect N200,000 just to buy fuel?

“N200,000 will buy more than 2,000 litres of petrol and one wonders whether they were travelling to Australia to require over 2,000 litres of petrol.”