The allegations of blackmail by the speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Adewale Omirin has been described as a deliberate attempt by the Ekiti State lawmakers to play politics with the lives of Ekiti people.
In a statement by the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ekiti State Chapter, Idowu Faleye, said the Speaker of the state Assembly is being economical with the truth in his assertions in the dailies that Governor Ayo Fayose was blackmailing him because of the refusal of the House to clear the commissioner nominees and lists of the caretaker committee for the Local Government in the state.
The Chairman explained that members of the House have no course not to clear the nominees in the first instance because it was the House that demanded for the names and credentials of the nominees which were submitted promptly.
He said it was then a big surprise and highly disappointing for the Speaker to say that the nominees have not brought their credentials when in actual fact the receipt of the documents were certified before the plenary on Tuesday.
Faleye stressed that the House made a u-turn after receiving a contrary order from their masters hence the issue was hurriedly removed from the agenda of the house for the day.
“I want to say categorically that the House called for the credentials of the nominees who are members of our party and the three of them submitted while the speaker invited for screening on Monday before realising that the parliamentary caucus meeting of the House would be meeting on the day; he then shifted the meeting till Tuesday, it was along the line that the order to stop the whole process crept in based on the opinion of the leaders of the opposition All Progressive Congress”
The Chairman who described the statement credited to the speaker as a wild unimaginable allegations to cover-up a grand plan by the APC members of the Assembly to play politics of retrogression with the well-being of Ekiti State, noted that if they have not demanded for bribe or even been paid to truncate progress in Ekiti how could their refusals to do the needful be justified or explained.
“I can only deduce only one thing from this situation that the lawmakers are acting on a negative directives and influence of those who don’t want Ekiti to move forward knowing full well that the governor could only function well with commissioners and local government apparatus”
Faleye stated that the former governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi who was a product of the APC came in to the seat of government as at the time PDP was the Speaker of the House and the party was in the majority, the house didn’t delay the passage of the lists of the commissioners and special advisers then for the love of the state rather than pursuing parochial interest.
The Chairman equally stated that the APC legislators that are playing unnecessary politics now were known to be passing three to eight bills within a day during Fayemi’s era.
He reminded the lawmakers that drawing back the government as they are doing now also amounts to drawing back the wheels of progress of the state which he said would only put their name in the black book of every Ekiti sons and daughters.
According to him whichever political party any of you belong to now will one day fade away but Ekiti will always remain and your footprints would be visible on the sand of time while your actions and inactions while in the hallowed chamber would become the judgement of your personality in future.
He assured that the PDP government in the State is on course and that there is no any amount of blackmail or any form of political shenanigans can truncate this administration as the governor will continue with his vision of taken Ekiti State to an envious level in term of human and physical development.
