Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, on Monday evening, has
disclosed that he would contest the 2018 gubernatorial election so that
he could serve his term which was truncated through an orchestrated
conspiracy of illegal impeachment in 2006.
It would be recalled
that the Supreme Court, in 2014, nullified the impeachment saga that
ousted Fayose from office about seven months to the end of his first
term. The apex court described the said impeachment as null and void.
Speaking
in a live broadcast on Ekiti State Television in Ado-Ekiti on Monday
evening, Fayose, who was explaining why he chose to put his image on a
campaign poster currently circulating the state, said that since the
apex court had said that his impeachment in 2006 was illegal, he would
then have to approach same court to interpret what that ruling meant and
also consider seeking a re-election in 2018.
“The
‘Continuity’ poster you see my image in and which is spreading across
the state can be interpreted in two ways. First is the need for me to
ask the apex court to explain its 2014 ruling that my so-called
impeachment in 2014 was illegal, null and void and also consider a
re-election in 2018 so that I can complete my term.
Speaking also
about the lingering non-supply of petrol to the state by the Independent
Petroleum Marketers of Nigeria (IPMAN), Governor Fayose alleges that
the decision of the fuel marketers to stop supply to the state days
prior to the burial of late Major Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo was
politically-motivated and done in conspiracy with the opposition so as
to ensure that the burial of the late governor of Old Western Region
failed to be successful and colourful as the governor has planned.
Vowing
to resist any attempt to run business through illegal and questionable
means, governor Fayose ordered that as long as fuel supply doesn’t come
to Ekiti, commercial activities in all petrol station must stop
henceforth.
He also ordered that all petrol stations defaulting in proper legal proceedings will be demolished henceforth.
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