The
Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has
counseled Governor Ayodele Fayose to shun belligerent attitude in
governance process, saying bare-faced lies to set the people against the
APC lawmakers bears no integrity in moving the state forward.
Reacting
to allegations by Fayose on state radio and television that the Speaker
and APC lawmakers demanded N365 million bribe to clear the
commissioner-nominees and 10 percent of the N2b MDGs funds, Omirin in a
statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, said he never
believed a governor could make himself a laughing stock to the more
intelligent people of Ekiti State, who had taken the governor for what
he is as their experience with him had shown over the years.
The
governor had at the weekend alleged that his refusal to bribe APC
lawmakers with N365 million was responsible for their attitude to make
the state ungovernable. He urged market women and Ekiti masses to rise
against the lawmakers to save his government.
But
the Speaker said the Assembly under his leadership had a record of
integrity, explaining that throughout Governor Kayode Fayemi's
administration during which 75 bills were passed into law, the lawmakers
never demanded for one naira before doing the job they were voted to
do.
Omirin said instead
of blaming seven PDP members for plans to demand for10 percent of the
N2b MDGS fund, the governor had turned full circle to accuse the APC
lawmakers who called the governor's attention to the demand by PDP
lawmakers for the cut.
His
words: "I have never seen this kind of incorrigible attitude all my
life. He told us to our face that he would lie against us to set Ekiti
people against us. I thought it was a joke. In actual fact, it was the
PDP members that suggested that we should demand for 10 percent cut in
the N2 billion MDGs fund and all APC lawmakers said no. We even called
the attention of the governor to this attempted fraud. How the
governor has now turned full circle to accuse APC lawmakers of demanding
for bribe is baffling. One good thing though is that Ekiti people know
the kind of governor they have.
"The
alleged N1.3billion poultry fraud case is still in court. There were
many things coated in sugar that he told Ekiti people about the poultry
project. Evidence of that lie and allegation of fraud on the people can
be found in Justice Adamu Hobon's court at the Federal High Court in
Ado-Ekiti where details of how the governor allegedly defrauded Ekiti
people are being examined for judicial interpretaion. Here we are again
on MDG N2b fund."
The
Speaker urged Ekiti people to beware of the masters of theatrics, who
have turned statecraft in Ekiti Sate to the theatre of the absurd,
where stunts and propaganda have taken the place of reason and candour
in the mobilization of people and resources for the growth of the state.
Omirin
added: "I am happy that I and other APC lawmakers have clean records.
We have never committed crimes either in Nigeria and abroad. We don't
have question mark on our certificates. Nobody can accuse us of
committing crimes abroad and sneaked to Nigeria through fake identity
to escape justice. We have never been accused of murder. None of us has
criminal cases hanging on our necks in courts. We are decent men and
women who can point to where we are coming from without shame.
"Nobody
can accuse us of lying under oath. None of us has ever covered a copy
of dictionary with the thick back cover of the Holy Bible and used it to
swear an oath to deceive people that he had used the holy bible to take
an oath.
"Nobody can
accuse any one of us of swearing to an oath in the filling of our Code
of Conduct and assets declaration form that he had two mansions in
Ibadan before he assumed duties whereas the sites for the buildings at
the time of filling the form were in thick forest but the structures
were only built two years after assuming duties. Ekiti people and
indeed all Nigerians know whose stock in trade is to engage in these
liies and criminal acts to circumvent the law."
Omirin
said the APC lawmakers would continue to tread the path of integrity to
save the people from dishonest people who want to set Ekiti people
against the lawmakers through lies and deceit to achieve sinister
motives
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