A statement on Wednesday said the Assembly members, who came prepared for arrest with their travelling bags to the spot of the sit down protest, vowed to remain at the spot the whole day
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The Senate’s decision was sequel to a motion sponsored by Senator Biodun Olujimi (PDP-Ekiti), who described the action of the DSS as barbaric
The Speaker of the House, Pastor Kola Oluwawole, said the crop of legislators in the current House in Ekiti State had vowed that lifting the state out of its current state of lack was more paramount to it than any financial benefit, adding that they were confident that things would improve with time
This was contained in a statement issued by the Clerk of the House, Tola Esan, in Ado-Ekiti
He said in the statement: “We all saw the intrigues that characterized the primaries that returned the new members. It was ballot snatching and violence on massive scale. The same for April 11 Assembly poll
The lawmakers had late on Wednesday said they will shun the peace meeting because information available to them indicated they would be arrested
Fayose and Olusola, in the ex parte application, asked for an interim order stopping the impeachment notice served on them and the moves to remove them from office
Those who barricaded the roads included the Deputy Governor, Dr. Kolapo Olusola; a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Tunji Odeyemi; the Special Assistant to Governor Ayo Fayose on Information, Lanre Ogunsuyi; and the Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka
Okanlawon expressed disgust at the publication, which reported that a detachment of policemen have been drafted from the Osun State Government House, while a sum of N175 million was given to Omirin and other members of the All Progressives Congress in the Ekiti StateHouse of Assembly in their alleged efforts to remove Governor Ayodele Fayose
Olugbemi said the sacked workers were not properly employed by the Fayemi administration
The forum, comprising the 36 speakers of the states houses of assembly, on Friday expressed support for the embattled Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adewale Omirin, describing the manner Olugbemi emerged as illegal and unconstitutional
While the 19 APC lawmakers were meeting in Lagos, 10 were said to be impeaching the speaker in Ekiti State. Yet the Assembly is made up of 26 members
Omirin, while responding on a telephone call monitored on the African Independent Television, said: “The 19 APC (All Progressives Congress) members are intact and we are outside the state because the place is not safe for us
A statement by the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ekiti State Chapter, Chief Idowu Faleye, said Omirin was being economical with the truth in his assertions in the dailies that the governor of the state, Ayo Fayose, was blackmailing him on the refusal of the House to clear the commissioner nominees and lists of the caretaker committee for the local governments in the state
Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has called on the National Judicial Council (NJC) to launch investigation into the allegation of beating up a judge by him and other happenings in Ekiti State judiciary in recent times, saying it will expose cans of worms.
The outgoing governor’s move to create the LCDAs generated controversy, with many describing it as unconstitutional and belated
The development was first exclusively reported by The Eagle Online on Saturday morning
The governor’s action, which was contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Olayinka Oyebode, was sequel to the resolution of the House of Assembly removing the chairmen and members of the two commissions during its plenary sitting on Tuesday