Olugbemi in a statement issued on Thursday in Ado-Ekiti, by his media aide, Mr. Femi Idoko, said there is no illegality in last week’s removal of Omirin as the Speaker of the assembly, and went ahead to condemn the claim by the APC lawmakers that Governor Ayodele Fayose wanted to turn them to house boys as frivolous.
The Speaker was said to be reacting to the visit of the APC legislators to the Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salam, where they claimed Omirin’s removal was illegal.
Below is the full statement....
“It is baffling that honourable members can start going about peddling falsehood. For the purpose of setting the records straight, the Ekiti State House of Assembly constitutionally and legally sat last Thursday and removed Omirin and elected a new set of leaders. Our APC colleagues also lied by saying that Governor Ayo Fayose is behaving like an authoritarian leader in his dealings with them. The governor held a series of meetings with the members of the EKHA and I was privy to those meetings. The governor nearly prostrated for us in some of the meetings, begging us on the need to put Ekiti State first in our considerations. Surprisingly, anytime we agreed to work for the growth of the state, our APC colleagues would change their minds when they got out of the venue. They are being tele-guided by their leaders in Lagos and Abuja. To the APC lawmakers, Ekiti is not their first priority; their own first priority is APC. They are the ones who do not want the progress of the state. They are hell-bent on seeking vengeance for the defeat of their party in the June 21 governorship poll. For us in the PDP, it is Ekiti first. But for them in the APC, it is the APC first. We cannot allow anybody or group to hold the state down and be a stumbling block to the progress of our dear state,” Olugbemi said.
Olugbemi, however counseled the APC lawmakers to come back to the state and execute the constitutional duties they were voted for. He also advised Omirin to note that he would be coming back to the assembly as a member and not the Speaker, because the suit on his removal has not been determined.
It would be recalled that last week, PDP lawmakers sat in the absence of the Speaker, Adewale Omirin and his deputy, Adetunji Orisalade, who were in Lagos with 17 other APC lawmakers.
However, the lingering drama going on in the Ekiti State House of Assembly took a new turn when the impeached Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin dragged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers to an Abuja Federal High Court to seek restoration of all their rights and privileges.
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