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Ekiti Assembly’s outdoor plenary shameful, says APC

By Muyiwa Adeyemi (Head South West Bureau, Ado Ekiti)
01 July 2016   |   1:54 am
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described as “shameful” the outdoor plenary by the House of Assembly to protest the freezing of Governor Ayodele Fayose ...
Ekiti Assembly

Ekiti Assembly

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described as “shameful” the outdoor plenary by the House of Assembly to protest the freezing of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s bank accounts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The party claimed that the lawmakers were acting as pawns in the governor’s chess game to subvert the tenets of democracy and probity in governance and by extension, endorsing him for a free rein to allegedly misapply public funds for personal benefit.

Reacting yesterday in a statement in Ado –Ekiti to Wednesday’s protest by the House which relocated its sitting to the highway to solidarise with Fayose, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun said the action of the lawmakers was a worst form of mediocrity and lack of integrity, adding that “they have shown the whole world they belong to the gutter where they have moved the Assembly to.”

He noted that his party was amazed that “representatives of the people could stand against the wishes of the same people who wanted allegation against the governor investigated to retrieve state’s funds to enable workers take the arrears of their six months’ salaries.”

Olatunbosun added that the party had been vindicated in its claim last year that members of the Assembly lacked requisite competence, integrity and independence of the mind required for serious business of law-making.

“We are not surprised about the shameless theatrics of the rubber stamp Ekiti State House of Assembly members because they are behaving true to type as we predicted during their inauguration that nothing good would come out of this Assembly because of the character and quality of individuals.

“It is a disservice to representative government that a group of lawmakers, who is expected to be loyal to their constituents, has jettisoned that cardinal principle of democracy and replace it with loyalty to an individual whose greed is inflicting untold sufferings on the people of the state.

“We challenge the lawmakers, who have shamelessly constituted themselves to a nuisance by shifting their plenary to the street of Ado-Ekiti in protest against the Federal Government, to go to the EFCC office in Abuja to prove their innocence,” Olatubosun stated.

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