Ekiti State Governor- Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said the call by the National Public¬ity Secretary of the All Pro¬gressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he be arrested over recent political developments in the state was baseless, spurious and the product of an ignorant mind.
Speaking in Ado-Ekiti yesterday through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said Moham-med was fed with lies about the happenings in Ekiti State and that he had exposed him¬self by commenting in a man¬ner only an ignorant fellow would do.
Adelusi noted that he was not surprised by Moham¬med’s outburst because he, like other APC leaders, were sad as their efforts to launch a judicial coup failed woefully last Monday.
“We Yoruba people have a saying that ‘inu a bimo ku ki idun’ (somebody who gave birth and lost the child would not be happy). Having snatched people’s mandate through the back door, not once but twice, to rule states where they did not win elec¬tions, the APC and its leaders thought it the best way to se¬cure electoral victory.
“They did those things in the past through some spuri¬ous judgments and were hop¬ing for a repeat performance in Ekiti State after the people
rejected them with His Ex¬cellency, Mr Ayo Fayose, trouncing their candidate 16 goals to zero. Their man could not even win his local government.
“Their evil plan to use compromised judicial officers last Monday to steal the peo¬ple’s mandate was scuttled by the vigilant voters who freely gave their mandate to Fayose. Their game plan was to do another abracadabra and get the inauguration of the gover¬nor-elect aborted. They were planning to get the Speaker of the House of Assembly inaugurated as acting gover¬nor. People from Gboyin Lo¬cal Government Area where Speaker Adewale Omirin hails from were already jubi¬lating.
“God, in His mercy, ex¬posed them. For Lai Moham¬med to put the blame on Fay¬ose smacks of bad belle and malice,” he said.
The CPS opined that the two suits brought before an Ado-Ekiti High Court by a group, the E-11 were pre-election matters and that the issue of the jurisdiction of the court was being contested.
Adelusi advised Moham¬med and the APC leaders to learn how to accept defeat, as in politics, one wins some and loses some. He called on the people of the state to be vigilant, as enemies of their collective resolve were roar¬ing about like a wounded lion seeking who to devour.
Source: Sun
