Plot to remove Fayose ‘ll consume Buhari’s govt, says Ekiti PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State on Thursday declared that the alleged subterranean moves to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose would lead to the total collapse of the administration of President Muhamadu Buhari, if eventually carried out.

The party said it was reasonable and justifiable that the governor wrote the Acting Chief Justice of the Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, informing him of the alleged moves to co-opt a section of the judiciary to the devilish plot.

Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, the PDP State Chairman, Gboyega Oguntuase, cautioned that the alleged plot to remove the governor would create crisis of monumental proportion that would be difficult for the Nigeria Army to curtail.

Oguntuase described Fayose as a man of the people and the opposition leader in the country, who commanded enormous followership across the six geopolitical zones of the country.

“Governor Fayose is not just the Governor of Ekiti State, but the opposition voice in Nigeria. He speaks for all the oppressed Nigerians in the Southwest, South East, South-South, North Central and even in the far North.

“Removing Governor Fayose from the power is like removing the whole Ekiti who voted  for him in all the 16 local government areas of this state. Any war wage against our governor will be resisted by the people from all these zones.

“Governor Fayose has been the most consistent critic of President Buhari’s government, particularly against the poorly managed economy leading to this recession. So, all Nigerians will rise against this evil plot.

“If you look at the results of the 2014 governorship poll, you would think it was a tsunami because he won in all the 16 local governments. If truly democracy still remains the government of the people, then attempt to remove Governor Fayose will be tantamount to usurpation of the people’s power,” he said.

Fayose had in the letter to the CJN accused former Governor Segun Oni and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, of clandestine moves to coerce the judiciary to use Army Panel report to reverse his election victory.

He prayed the CJN to resist the move by preserving democracy and the integrity of the judiciary.

 Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress in the state has reacted to Fayose’s accusation that the party was plotting the manipulation of the judiciary to re-open  the Army Panel report on the 2014 governorship poll to have his election victory reversed.

The APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, scoffed at the allegation, describing it as the “ranting of a notorious blackmailer, electoral robber, political harlot and a pathological liar.”

Accusing Fayose of crying wolf where none existed, Olatunbosun said there was no meeting where Fayemi and Oni met to boast that he would be removed, noting that the governor was only jittery and afraid of the consequences of his many infractions on the law.

Olatunbosun said, “Fayemi and Oni are too decent and busy in their assignments to engage in such frivolous boasts that Fayose is accusing them of. Their track records as democrats and ‘Omoluabi’ are there for all to see.