Following the impeachment notice served the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, the security details of the embattled Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin has been restored by Nigerian Police Force, Department of State Security Service, newspunch.org has leanrt.
Dr. Adewale Omirin’s security details was withdrawn following his controversial impeachment and that of his Deputy by seven lawmakers loyal to Gov. Ayodele Peter Fayose out of the 26 others loyal to All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Ekiti 19 APC lawmakers have since fled the state for fear of attack, but have since returned following the emergence of the President-elect under the platform of APC.
The 19 lawmakers led by Dr. Omirin have served Gov. Fayose and his Deputy an impeachment notice, citing many impeachable offences.
Meanwhile, the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has said that Governor Ayodele Fayose cannot run away from facing impeachment process, noting that the impeachment notice served him is a constitutional matter and not about theatrics to play down serious issues of the law raised in the letter to the governor.
He said instead of staying in hiding to evade justice, it is better to live with the reality that the rule of law has come to stay in the country.
Reacting to media reports credited to the self-styled Speaker, Dele Olugbemi; and the governor’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, dismissing the impeachment notice to the governor as a joke, Omirin said the two men were still acting in ignorance of the supremacy of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in nurturing democratic conduct consistent with the universal standard.
In a statement by the Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker, Wole Olujobi, Omirin said Ekiti issue was a matter of rescuing democracy from the gridlock of executive lawlessness and impunity into which the state had been driven by the governor.
He said: “It will soon dawn on Fayose and his aides that the matter at hand goes beyond exuberant media skirmishes that are being deployed to rally support for the governor.
“Attention of the world has shifted to Ekiti State following the leaked tape detailing electoral fraud perpetrated to give Fayose victory. After that, several issues in Ekiti State are being questioned on the place of the constitution in nurturing democracy in the country, and as responsible citizens, we must act right to make democracy work.”
Omirin said all allegations raised in the impeachment notice are constitutional matters, to which the governor must be ready to produce answers instead of belligerent attitude in the media in addressing serious issue of constitutional significance.
Advising the governor to respond to the allegations against him, he said running away from the Government House and using his aides to cover his track would not help him in defending his assault on the nation’s constitution and other infractions against the constitution that were already established against him in courts.
“It is good that his men are talking in the media about the need to uphold the constitution in this matter even though they behave short of upholding the constitution in their conduct
“Even though the governor trampled on the same constitution when he led thugs to attack judges in court and tore court records in the Chief Judge’s office, our duty is to follow constitutional path in this impeachment process.
“These men that are flying the governor’s banner will soon see the law in action. This impeachment process is real. We must rescue Ekiti State from lawlessness and fraud. The N1.3 billion poultry project fraud case is still in court. There are still cases of unresolved murders.
“We have again seen the resumption of state-sponsored terrorism with thugs attacking and maiming Ekiti people after a break in 2006 when the governor was impeached for fraud and attacks on opponents,” the Speaker said.
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