No vehicle can move out of or into the state
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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
Olayinka was reacting to a statement on Thursday by the APC’s spokesperson in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatubosun
According to a press statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose noted with dismay the contemptuous manner in which the APC and Buhari hold Nigeria and its people
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose, who said he was not against the use of any technology to ensure credible elections, added that the flaws recorded during the last Saturday test run exercise were too fundamental to be ignored
The governor said the APC should stop acting as if Nigeria belongs to the party
The Publicity Secretary of the APC in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatubosun, said in a statement that in a petition by the APC State Secretary, Paul Omotoso, dated February 15, 2015, the party pointed NBC’s attention to the poor quality control mechanism arising from poor staffing at the leadership cadre of the two stations
The government has also directed that no poster should be pasted anywhere in the state without evidence of payment of relevant fees to the State Signage Agency
Olayinka said there was no time Federal Allocation to Ekiti State was withheld as being claimed on the social media by Fayemi’s men, adding: “Fayemi’s refusal to pay workers August and September, 2014 salaries was criminal and that no amount of lies by his Social Media men can wash him clean of culpability in the non-payment of the salaries and cooperative societies deductions
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 Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, who reacted to the protest in a release issued in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, said the APC lawmakers should as well declare themselves as members of Lagos State House of Assembly II
Reacting to Omirin’s comment that “damning reports of alleged fraud were established at the hearings of the election petitions tribunal sitting in Abuja, and that Governor Ayodele Fayose refused to appear at the tribunal to defend the certificate forgery and perjury allegations made against by the APC because he was afraid to enter witness box for cross-examination,” the Special Assistant to Governor Ayo Fayose on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said it was irresponsible for the speaker to have alluded that the governor was a perjurer and certificate forger
Olayinka, who described claim by the APC lawmakers that the House of Assembly refused to approved the Local Councils’ Caretaker Committee sent by Governor Fayose because of a pending court case as a “shameless lie”, added that it was obvious that the APC lawmakers were not saying the truth
Olayinka said as a public office holder, “the Speaker does not have legal rights to own private business, and one wonders how someone prohibited by law to own private business while in can be said to the owner of a filling station that is under construction”
The independent producer of the Yoruba newspaper review programme was owing over N600,000
AFCO said it was strange that despite that Electoral Laws forbid campaign 48 hours to an election, Tinubu and his APC could still go to the press to carry out indirect campaigns for their party, while also trying to armtwist and blackmail the Independent National Electoral Commission and the security agencies
Even though we are still reaching out to like-minds, we already have in our fold top professionals, politicians, religious leaders who are tired of the self-marginalisation of our people and the deceits from our political class
In a short ruling on the bail application of counsel to the accused person, Obafemi Adewale, the Presiding Chief Magistrate, Prince Adesoji Adegboye, granted Olayinka bail in the sum of N100,000 and one surety, who is substantially resident in Ado-Ekiti
In a statement on Sunday by its Coordinator, Dr. Dada Popoola, JFAN said it never for one day thought that a journalist could be arrested and charged to court for sedition in a state where someone like Fayemi was the governor