Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has described his governorship as a mandate freely and wholeheartedly given by Ekiti people, saying:
“Ekiti people who are the owners of my mandate will defend it against political usurpers, whom they had rejected twice in the last nine months.”
According to his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor also urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, to sustain his stand on not allowing the use of the judiciary to change the outcome of elections.
Fayose, who described the ongoing controversy over an alleged move by some lawmakers to impeach him through Supreme Court judgment being made by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a plot to distract him from concentrating on governance and the coming Saturday’s House of Assembly election, called on members and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state not to be distracted from their goal of delivering all the 26 assembly seats in the state to the party.
He said: “Sovereignty belongs to the people and the people of Ekiti State on June 21, 2014, surrendered it to me to be their governor for four years.
“Instead of respecting the wish of Ekiti people, which they again affirmed on March 28 and will further affirm on April 11, the APC people that were rejected in two free and fair elections have been trying all tricks to return to power through the back door.
“They filed several cases in their bid to stop my inauguration as governor and even committed murder in the process.”
Speaking further, Fayose said: “The Speaker of the state House of Assembly then, Dr. Adewale Omirin, was assured of assuming office as acting governor and that informed his non-attendance of my inauguration, as he was still hoping that a court order on October 16, 2014 would stop my inauguration.”
