We Will Resist Any Attempt to Impeach Fayose, Drivers Warn APC Lawmakers
Commercial drivers’ unions operating in Ekiti State have warned the All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the state House of Assembly against displaying “powerdrunk syndrome’’ over their insistence to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose, saying they would resist any act to subvert the mandate freely given to the governor.
The drivers also handed down a warning to their lawmakers’ sponsors, who they said seem determined in destabilising the state, saying they are monitoring their movement between now and the end of their tenure on June 6, 2015.
They were reacting to the impeachment move being spearheaded by the lawmakers against Fayose over alleged gross misconduct and the purported notice of impeachment sent to the governor.
The unions said they are aware of the meeting held by eight of the APC lawmakers with a former president yesterday night and the one they have scheduled for Osogbo, Osun State tonight as well as the two dates they have picked to invade Ekiti, adding: “All efforts by the APC lawmakers and their sponsors to throw Ekiti State into chaos will be resisted.
“We are following every of their moves and whatever funny move they make between now and the end of their tenure will be resisted.”
They said this in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti yesterday and signed by the Chairman, Road Transport Employers Association (RTEA), Samuel Agbede, Chairman, National Unions of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Clement Adekola and Chairman, Pick-Up and Lorry Drivers Association, Hon. Atowoju Oluwatosin.
The commercial drivers noted the involvement of a former governor of the state and Deputy National Chairman of the APC and two APC serving senators in the plot and warned those backing the lawmakers to be mindful of the fact that Ekiti people are watching them.
“We have voted and elected Fayose as our governor and we wish to assure any security agent they are enlisting to come and destabilise Ekiti State that we are ready for them. Their sponsors should also know that this is 2015, not 2006, we are wiser now,” the unions said.
“We, the commercial drivers see the APC lawmakers as recalcitrant.
Rejecting peace efforts by Ekiti elders, traditional rulers and other is to say the least, insulting.”
“As at today, there is a court order that all parties in the
impeachment saga should maintain status quo and the suit will come up again on May 21. The Inspector General of Police (IG), who is also a party to the pending case, had already been served the court order and other processes and as a lawyer himself, we believe the IG should know the implication of a court order”.
But the lawmakers have described the governor as the architect of his own misfortune, urging him to stop deceiving Ekiti people over his claim that some people are after his office.
The lawmakers said the governor himself should be blamed as the author of his own impeachment trouble, having flouted the law by using only seven lawmakers to conduct the affairs of the assembly.
Reacting to the claim by Fayose that the Speaker Adewale Omirin-led APC lawmakers were bent on precipitating violence in the state, they accused the governor of flouting the laws and acting in a manner suggestive that Nigeria is in a military era.
They assured that no amount of blackmail by Fayose would deter them from protecting the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from being muzzled by Fayose.