By Gbenga Ariyibi

Ado Ekiti—The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has faulted Governor Ayo Fayose’s claim on non-payment for the purchase of vehicles for traditional rulers by the administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi, saying deliberate distortion of facts to deceive Ekiti people is unstatesmanly in governance.

Reacting to Fayose’s claim that Fayemi bought cars for traditional rulers on credit, the APC state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said that Governor Fayemi paid for all the cars.

His words: “The traditional rulers themselves can find out from the suppliers of the vehicles, Coscharis, if these vehicles were not fully paid for. Let Governor Fayose show to the whole world documents showing that the cars were not paid for. This is a challenge.

“We understand his game plan by telling the traditional rulers that their cars have not been paid for. He is seeking an undeserved sympathy from them so that they can support his illegalities. It is a subtle blackmail and threat to the royal fathers so as to put them under his control just as he has desecrated the judiciary and violated the legislature.’’

Omirin was imposed on us —Olugbemi

Meantime, the purported new Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dele Olugbemi, has claimed that, Hon. Adewale Omirin was imposed on the lawmakers by the immediate past governor Kayode Fayemi, saying he, Omirin should tell Nigerians how he emerged the speaker.

Olugbemi equally condemned his colleagues for moving from one state to the other to solicit the support of outsiders on the issue which he described as purely internal problem.

“Omirin and his deputy were not duly elected by the Assembly but were imposed by former Governor Kayode Fayemi against the wish of the APC leaders,” he said.

According to the statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti yesterday by his image maker,Mr Femi Iroko, Omirin’s emergence as speaker ran foul of the norm of electing the leadership of the House.

Olugbemi challenged Omirin “to swear by the Holy Bible if he was truly elected by the House members,” and argued that “if elections were conducted, Mr. Idowu Alabi or Sunday Adu would have emerged as the Speaker then.

“For us in the PDP, it is Ekiti first, but for them in the APC, it is APC first. We cannot allow anybody or group to hold the state down and be a stumblingblock to the progress of our dear state,” he said.

Olugbemi advised the APC lawmakers to come back to Ekiti State and perform the constitutional roles they were elected for.

He advised Omirin to note that he would be coming back to be a member of the Assembly, not the speaker, as the suit Omirin filed about his removal has not been determined.