Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
Ekiti
State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday bade farewell to the
outgoing members of the House of Assembly, insisting that he had
forgiven them for attempting to remove him from office.
Fayose
said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu
Adelusi, even as the Assembly’s tenure will expire on Friday.
Ekiti
State had been under siege for the past three days as thugs said to be
loyal to Fayose blocked all roads leading to the Assembly complex to
prevent the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers from sitting with the
aim of impeaching him.
Fayose
lamented how things ended between him and the lawmakers but promised
that they would not be victimised after leaving office.
He said,
“The last few months have been traumatic, especially this week. I was
not given room for concentration, but I had left the battle for God to
fight. I told those planning to impeach me that they will succeed if
they can impeach God.
“I did not
bring myself back to power; my coming back after eight years was
divine. I defeated the APC totally in all the elections, still they did
not want to concede victory easily until when the Ekiti people rose to
defend that June 21 mandate.
“I will now squarely face the business of governance.”
He
explained that he would not waste time on revenge, noting that he was
not ready to muscle anyone since God had given him victory in all of the
battles that confronted him.
The
governor, who praised the people of the state for preventing the
lawmakers from gaining access to the complex, urged them to meet him at
Ijigbo junction on Friday for a ‘victory walk’ to the complex where he
will inaugurate the next Assembly which will comprise 26 members of the
Peoples Democratic Party.
“The
governor called on the people to gather at Ijigbo junction tomorrow (
Friday) from where he would lead them on victory walk to the state House
of Assembly for the inauguration of the new House of Assembly members,”
the statement added.
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