Fayose petitions UN, AU over alleged APC plan to destabilise Ekiti

EKITI State Governor Ayodele Fayose yesterday raised the alarm that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has perfected plans to make the state ungovernable for him from May 29 this year.

Fayose, who in a statement he personally signed said he has put on notice the “United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) on the imminent reign of impunity by APC as from May 29”, said he had hope in Ekiti people to defend the mandate freely given to him.

He said: “Since Ekiti people are certain to resist the planned plundering of their land, Nigerians and the world at large should know who to hold responsible in the event of anarchy in Ekiti State in particular and the entire Yorubaland.”

Fayose, who promised APC a “robust and engaging opposition both in the South-West, and nationally”, said he had no regret supporting President Goodluck Jonathan and he would continue to support him after leaving office on May 29.

He said: “I wish to declare unequivocally that I remain loyal to President Jonathan even after May 29 as my support for his re-election and administration was not about bread-and-butter. I was convinced he was moving Nigeria in the right direction despite all the noise. I have no regret supporting him. If same situation presents itself again, I would do it all over.

“Let me state clearly that if President Jonathan is deserted by all Nigerians today, I, Ayodele Fayose, would remain with him. I have chosen to be his last-man standing.

“If for this show of loyalty to Mr. President and my party, APC and its leaders believe that the best way to pay me back is to make Ekiti ungovernable, the decision on appropriate reaction belongs to the people, whose mandate I keep in trust.

“It is ironic that those who said worse things about the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari when they were in opposition parties, are the ones milling around him today, using him as an electoral talisman and demonising us for saying things of lesser magnitude during a campaign that was mainly characterised by hate-messages from both divides.

“I however trust Ekiti people to do what is right in securing peace in their land.

“I have been severally informed that I became the prime demolition target of the APC national leadership because of my overt and unalloyed support for President Goodluck Jonathan during the campaigns.

“Insiders in their party also told me that APC leaders were also yet to get over the fact that in the entire South-West, Ekiti was the only state they could not “rob” for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. The eagle-eyed surveillance of Ekiti people ensured that.”

The governor further said: “Let me again state that I will continue to seek peace with my traducers and troublers of Ekiti.

“Since the Supreme Court judgment which held my 2006 impeachment as illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect, my preaching had been peace.

“This is to see if a hand of fellowship as urged by elders in the state and the nation at large would bring sanity to the opposition camp. It definitely has nothing to do with cowardice as Ekiti is a land of the brave.”