Senator Babafemi Ojudu, one of APC chieftain in Ekiti state has taken
to his facebook page to condemn the plot by the state governor, Peter Ayodele
Fayose for shutting down commercial activities in the town in other to hinder President
Muhammed Buhari visit to the state.
President Muhammed Buhari has planned to visit Ekiti state today alongside other bigwigs in the party in support of Dr. Kayode Fayemi as the state prepares for the gubernatorial election this Saturday.
Ojudu
in a post he titled ‘This is crazy’ said, “Fayose has paid all transporters in
Ekiti to hand over all their vehicles so that there won’t be any to bring the
teeming supporters of our party from their various locations to receive Mr
President.
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| commercial vehicles parked to aid the shut down |
“All
the vehicles as I write this are parked in the premises of the Government House
and local government secretariats across the state with the gates padlocked .
He has shut all markets and asked people not to come out to receive Mr
President.
“Alternative
arrangements are being made to ensure we transport everyone of our supporters
to Ado Ekiti to give Mr President a befitting welcome.
“This
morning I feel like cursing every single person in our party and government who
collaborated to truncate all efforts made by some of us to throw this guy out
of our space before becoming a monster that he is today. I and my colleagues
did everything legally possible at the inception of this administration to
alert on the danger constituted by this fellow to our democracy and to our
country.
“We
moved and made arrangements to impeach him when our party had majority in the
house. Our party members and a number of the leaders betrayed us. Even when he
installed a new set of lawmakers most of whom knew not their right hand from
their left , I investigated them and came up with concrete evidence to show
that 14 of his 26 lawmakers forged their school certificates to secure
eligibility.
“I
have never, ever seen a situation where a governor has done this much to
disrespect the President of his country no matter their political differences.
“At
the heat of the disagreement between Governor TINUBU and President Obasanjo ,
Obasanjo paid a visit to Lagos State. Tinubu rolled out the red carpet and even
sowed a uniform Aso Oke, for Obasanjo, himself and members of Obasanjo’s
entourage with all the honors the President of the country deserved accorded
him.
“This
was at a time Obasanjo refused to make Local Government allocations available
to Lagos for almost two years.
“From
my vantage position I want to say and stand to be corrected that no single
allocation meant for Ekiti has been denied Ekiti since Fayose embarked on his
war against President Buhari. Every programs designed by the Federal Government
to relief the people of hardship has been made available to Ekiti. In some
cases it is the State Government that has been out of hostility refused to
allow the citizenry to participate. A good example of this is the Home Grown
Free School program that has so far benefitted majority of school pupils across
the country.
“Fayose
has serially abused the president , publicly wished him dead, libeled his wife
and children , insulted him outside the country and the President has not only
refused to respond to him but has ordered all of us who work for him and could
give Fayose in equal measure not to engage him.
“What
Fayose has done very sad and inexcusable; we hope he won’t go ahead this
morning and park trucks across the roads to block The President from having
access to the venue of the rally. This fellow is capable of all that is
indecent.
“Sadly
last week a band of rogues went to my house in Ekiti under the cover of night, they
gained access to my house by removing the burglary proof, broke down all the
doors and carted away all my property and that of my wife. This is the first
time since I built the house in 2003 that I will experience this. The police
till now have not been able to fish out those responsible.
“We
shall not be deterred. We shall continue to work hard even at the risk of
everything to bring sanity to our land.
He
has paid commercial vehicles money to remove their vehicles from the road so
that supporters of Mr. President will not have the means to transport
themselves to the stadium to welcome him.”
Different reactions have followed this
post on his facebook page, while some are in support of the post some were
against it condemning the governor for engaging in such act while some people
are indifferent.
