APC Accuses PDP of Instigating Ekiti House Crisis

Source: pointblanknews.com

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a PDP-led

and police-backed acts of impunity in Ekiti State, where only seven

members of the 26-strong House of Assembly on Monday morning convened the

House to carry out an agenda, dictated by Gov. Ayodele Fayose, that

includes the impeachment of the Speaker.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by its National Publicity

Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said over 200 armed policemen

are currently offering protection to the seven PDP members of the House,

who convened purposely to impeach the Speaker, approve the list of

Commissioners-designate as well as the Caretaker Committees for the local

councils in the state.
”The issue of the Caretaker Committees, which Gov. Ayodele Fayose plans to

swear in on Monday after the illegal approval by the House, is sub judice,

hence the House cannot even discuss it not to talk of acting on it. Also,

while the Governor was advised by the Clerk of the House that seven

members out of 26 do not form a quorum, he said after all, only eight of

24 members in the Plateau House of Assembly impeached then Gov, Joshua

Dariye in 2006!” it said.
APC said that ahead of what is clearly the height of impunity by a

democratically-elected Government, the utility services in the official

residence of the House Speaker, including electricity supply, have been

cut off while his salaries and allowances have been stopped. Others acts

of intimidation have been directed at the Speaker by the state

authorities.
”We know that President Goodluck Jonathan, who is the leader of the PDP,

has elevated impunity to an art, but he has simply overreached himself

with his party's latest show of shame in Ekiti. The fact that the

President's body language supports impunity has emboldened officials

elected under the banner of the PDP and appointed by his Administration to

perpetrate acts of impunity with impunity.
”Over 200 policemen could not have been deployed for this illegal act in

Ekiti without the knowledge of the Inspector General of Police. Yet, the

same IG trampled the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by

assuming the powers of the court to unilaterally withdraw the security

detail of House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal.

”Can the IG claim not to be aware that his men are offering protection to

only seven out of the 26 members of the Ekiti House of Assembly? Does he

honestly believe it is part of the responsibility of the police, which is

being funded by tax payers, to become the enforcement arm of the PDP? Does

he believe that the police that is empowered to enforce the law should

play a lead role in breaking it?” the party queried.

It warned the excitable and depthless Gov. Fayose of Ekiti not to throw

the state into a needless crisis by his trademark tomfoolery.

APC also warned that while a lot of unconstitutional and illegal

activities have taken place under the PDP-led Federal Government,

including the impeachment of then Gov Joshua Dariye of Plateau State by

only eight out of 24 members of the State House of Assembly, any decision

taken by only seven PDP members in the 26-member Ekiti House of Assembly

will not stand.
The party called on the PDP and the Federal Government to stop instigating

crisis in APC-controlled states, saying the PDP-instigated crisis in the

Edo State House of Assembly has yet to subside before the anarchic ruling

party decided to pounce on Ekiti.
”No matter how long it takes, those who are willfully flouting the laws of

the land and engaging in anti-democratic actions will come to justice.

Nothing in the world will justify the subversion of the Constitution by

anyone, especially those who are democratically-elected. We are therefore

warning the puppeteers in Ekiti to put a leash on their dogs of war, and

not to set Ekiti state ablaze over their narrow interests,” it said.

 
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