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  • Fayemi condemns alleged underhand recruitment of 2,000 new workers

    Ekiti State Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has condemned alleged massive recruitment of workers by Governor Ayo Fayose less than two months before leaving office.

    Fayemi said “the last-minute employment of workers” was a booby trap to make life difficult for the incoming administration.

    Fayose is expected to make way for Fayemi on October 16 when the governor-elect will be sworn in.

    A statement on Thursday by the Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wole Olujobi, claimed that Fayose had just employed 600 teachers into the Teaching Service Commission, 400 staff into the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and 1,000 into the Ministry of Establishment.

    The governor-elect berated Fayose for embarking on a last minute mass recruitment to deceive the unsuspecting victims and set a booby-trap for the incoming administration.

    Noting that Fayose  was deliberately creating obstacles for the new administration having not employed one person in nearly four years, the statement wondered why the governor embarked on mass recruitment in the last few days to the end of his term.

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    According to him, Fayose was playing on the intelligence of the people to paint a picture of a man of the masses in clear infraction on the law.

    He said: “It is a grand deception and sheer wickedness for a governor that has refused to pay workers and pensioners for between six and 10 months to now turn around to recruit about 2,000 workers in a selective manner to favour his supporters only.”

    Olujobi described Fayose’s recruitment as an act of desperation by a governor who never cared for the people but would always take advantage of them in a most dehumanising manner.

    “Once again, we call on Ekiti people as we did in our recent press release to be wary of Fayose’s last minute illegal deals, transactions and mass recruitment which do not  follow due process.

    “Any transaction so done shall be reviewed by the incoming administration.”

  • Fayemi to Fayose: Devote June allocation for payment of salaries

    Ekiti State Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has advised Governor Ayo Fayose to utilise the N5.5 billion June allegation from the Federation Account to pay workers’ salaries and pensioners’ entitlements.

    Fayemi also advised the governor to use the N34.5 billion Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) cash that had accrued to the state since October 2014 allegedly kept in a secret account with a bank for the benefit of the people.

    In a statement on Sunday by Director of Media and Publicity, Fayemi Media Office, Mr. Wole Olujobi, the governor-elect urged Fayose tomake accountability and human face critical factors in the policies ofhis administration.

    He urged Fayose to be open and transparent to the workers on the June allocation rather than summoning meetings with labour leaders to deceive  them on the state of finance.

    According to Fayemi, the usual practice by the governor to collect federal allocations and call stakeholders meetings to deceive Ekiti people on the sharing formula between the state and local governments
    is no longer acceptable.

    The statement read: “Information available to us suggests that Fayose at the weekend called all the Directors in the state service to a meeting in the new Governor’s Lodge, pleading with them not to release
    sensitive information to the opposition, including non-disclosure of the state’s finances.

    “But we want to say that the state has received N5.52b fresh June federal allocation and we demand that the money be spent to pay salary, and should not be subjected to the circus of lies and deceits
    that often accompanied the sharing of the allocations in the past whereby local governments were given their shares in the morning and in the night they would be coerced to return the money to the governor’s office while local governments workers remained unpaid fornine months.

    “Fresh reports on the status of the state’s internally generated revenue (IGR) have indicated that between October 16, 2014 to date, the state has a revenue profile of N34,560,000,000 kept in secret
    accounts in one old generation bank account and another new generation bank account, yet there is nothing to suggest that the money was spent for the benefit of Ekiti people.

    “This revenue profile in the two banks is outside the traffic and environmental offences fines and charges reportedly kept in accounts unknown to the state’s accounting and financial system at an old
    generation bank at Ijigbo area of the state capital.”

    While noting that the cloudy manner of doing government’s business had rendered the state’s economy comatose,  Olujobi explained that evidence had also shown that massive fraud existed in Water
    Corporation and Sports Council where government’s cash and vehicles had disappeared without trace.

    “At the State Water Corporation where opaque financial management has left the system in ruins, Ondo State had paid its counterpart fund of N40m for the upgrading of Egbe Dam, but Ekiti State Government has
    refused to honour its obligation to the project, even as the money paid by Ondo State cannot be traced to any government’s account.

    “At Ero Dam, despite releasing N1b on paper out of N1.4b budgeted for the dam’s expansion, there is no sign of work going on there as we speak while in the same Water Corporation, two multi-million naira
    serviceable trucks were taken to Afao-Ekiti country home of the governor several months ago under pretext that they were being taken there for repairs and up till now, the trucks are still not in the service of the Water Corporation.

    “This followed the same pattern whereby the state lost five unserviceable vehicles at the State Sports Council to new ownerswithout any public bidding and auctioning to take possession of the vehicles.

    “For instance, reports indicated that three Toyota Hiace buses, one 504 Peugeot and one Nissan 120Y had disappeared from the premises of the corporation on the alleged order of the governor.

    “This is besides illegal auctioning of several government’s vehicles at ridiculous prices to cronies, who later assembled the same vehicles at a motor showroom in Ibadan for resale to the public.”

    Frowning at the report of alleged increase in the monthly running grants to the office of the Wife of the Governor from N20m to N35m as reportedly approved on March 10, 2018, Fayemi said that for the
    little time remaining for Fayose’s administration, he must make transparency and compassion his watchwords by applying the state’s funds diligently, particularly in the payment of salaries and entitlements of workers and pensioners.

    The reaction of Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, was still being awaited as of press time.

  • Fayemi to Fayose: Be ready to account for Ekiti funds

    Ekiti State Governor-elect, Dr  Kayode Fayemi, has said  his decision to probe how the state’s finances were managed when he takes office on October 16 is not a vendetta mission.

    Fayemi said there is need to know why the state government still owes several arrears of workers’ salaries and pensioners’ benefits after receiving three tranches of bailout funds, Paris Club refunds, Budget Support Funds and the secrecy with which the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is shrouded in the last four years.

    He also warned against illegal appointments at the Ekiti State University (EKSU) saying “the ongoing staff upgrade at the university to create vacancies for employment is a subtle means to ensure that Governor Ayodele Fayose’s political agents occupy strategic positions they may not have competences to hold.”

    Fayemi was replying to an allegation by the administration of Governor Ayo Fayose that his plan to probe the management of the state finances, assets and liabilities by outgoing government was a mission of vengeance and vendetta.

    The governor-elect also urged Fayose and his media handlers to accept defeat in good faith after Ekiti people have realized that they had been dealing with a deceitful governor who can no longer fool them.

    In a statement on Saturday by the Director of Media in the Media in the Office of the Governor-elect, Mr. Wole Olujobi, Fayemi urged Fayose to be prepared to prepare for life outside office and answer to various alleged criminal cases hanging on his neck.

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    Fayemi said: “We are not surprised that it is now that Fayose is saying that he is ready to open the state’s books for probe and we wonder why he had refused to let Ekiti people know the state’s IGR figures in about four years while nobody knew how he spent budget support facility, Paris Club refunds and bailout cash.

    “Rather than continue to brag shamelessly and issue tissues of lies as press releases as he has been doing in the last four years, Fayose should bury his head in shame for misusing the opportunity of redeeming his battered image.

    “Fayose is one of the luckiest men in history, who has a second chance to redeem himself but he blew it because of greed, arrogance and covetousness.

    “We are also surprised that a beneficiary of 2014 poll fraud through criminal manipulation of Federal resources is the one now describing the free and fair election that produced Fayemi as flawed after Ekiti people went to poll to take their destiny in their hands by voting for Fayemi who can be trusted with power and resources of the state unlike Fayose who secretly collected N117b loans but refused to pay workers their salaries and pensioners’ entitlements.

    “We advise Fayose to brace up for life after government, especially to render accounts of his stewardship to Ekiti people in the last four years and must also be prepared to defend himself over a plethora of criminal cases hanging on his neck.”

    He advised Fayose to accept defeat and be prepared to face the law over his alleged infractions against the law while he was governor instead of launching blackmail against the plan to probe him. Fayemi cautioned EKSU Vice Chancellor, Prof Samuel Oye Bandele, against pandering to the preferences of the governor in the running of the university.

    He added: “We are aware of the plot to use staff upgrade to create hundreds of vacancies for Fayose’s agents for employment in the face of the dwindling economic fortunes of the university that cannot pay staff salary regularly and where infrastructure has decayed while subvention and capital grants have not been paid for more than a year.

    “We know that the strategy is to create more problems for the incoming administration, more so that the decision to employ more hands was taken after the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) lost the last governorship election to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    “The manner of the ill-motivated appointments lacks merit, coming at the eclipse of Fayose’s administration after failing to recruit staff in the last three years during which time staff were not motivated and infrastructure left to rot away.”

  • Ekiti 2018: You lied on alleged N18 billion poll fund, Fayemi campaign tells Olusola

    The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation has debunked accusation by the Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organization alleging movement of N18b from Akure Airport to Ekiti State for the election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

    Olusola’s campaign spokesman, Lere Olayinka, had alleged that the funds were illegally moved from UBA to Ekiti State to fund Fayemi’s election.

    But a statement by Director of Media and Publicity Secretary, Wole Olujobi, scoffed at the suggestion, saying the author of the press release was writing from a “hallucinating imagination” and background of a professional liar.

    “Lere Olayinka has a background of integrity deficiency in information dissemination in strict complement with his boss, Governor Ayodele Fayose.

    “Across the country and the world audience through social media, Olayinka is renowned for his notoriety to concoct falsehoods and present them to readers as facts.

    “Discerning minds will note the lies contained in the story by a single logic that it took Olusola and Olayinka a whole week after the leak of funds movement before they alerted Nigerians about a purported money cargo being offloaded in Akure for Fayemi’s election in Ekiti.

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    “By this lie from the pit of hell, we know that PDP is trying to paint a picture that it is a comrade-in-crime with APC after Fayose’s 2014 poll fraud funded with the loot from the office of the National Security Adviser.

    “It is also to argue that APC bought Ekiti people’s votes after Saturday humiliation of Fayose and Olusola who have set Ekiti people back in their thirst for development. Olujobi also faulted Olusola’s claim that policemen assaulted Fayose on Wednesday, explaining that the latest Fayose’s apology to the Police authorities for lying against their officers did not support the claim that police assault the governor.

    “It is great that security details attached to Fayose have confessed that there was no attack on the governor.

    “The security details confessed after they were queried for dereliction of duty in the protection of their principal.

    “Late last night, Fayose sent his aides to the police for forgiveness for lying against their officers.

    “The police spokesman this evening said so, but Olusola is still misinforming Nigerians that the police assaulted Fayose, which then goes to show the quality of his Christian life that he is flaunting to aspire to lead the state.

    “Nigerians are expecting the purported pictures showing funds movement to Ekiti State to fund Fayemi’s election, but we know that the pictures cannot be more than the 11 pictures that Fayose threatened to publish to show that President Muhammadu Buhari was on life support machine in the United Kingdom hospital,” Olujobi explained.

  • Ekiti 2018: Fayemi campaign raises alarm over Ekiti debt figures

    The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation has raised the alarm over the latest figures released by the Debts Management Office putting Ekiti State’s debts at N117b up from N56b figure it released few months ago.

    In its latest table detailing the debts owed by the 36 states of the federation, DMO put Ekiti State debts between October 2014 and 2018 at N117b.

    The Director of Media and Publicity of the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Wole Olujobi, in a statement on Tuesday accused Governor Ayo Fayose of profligacy, saying the governor is deliberately piling up debts to help himself while the state remains under the bondage of suffocating debts.

    He regretted that despite huge debts owed by Fayose, there is nothing to show for them except an over-priced 800-metre single-lane flyover that cost Ekiti people N17.5b in official records, though quoted at N6b to Ekiti people to escape public anger.

    The campaign spokesman said it is callous and unpatriotic to put Ekiti people in difficult condition while the governor enjoyed the best of life.

    He said the latest debt figure was wearisome after recent reports indicated that Fayose had allegedly borrowed N9b at an outrageous interest rate from a South South governor to allegedly finance the election of the Deputy Governor, Olusola Eleka, with the condition to repay the debts within six months if Eleka wins the July 14 election.

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    Asking Fayose to retrieve the alleged stolen N19b allegedly lodged in the accounts of a construction company to address the state’s economic challenges, Olujobi said: “Paying N9b debt back within six months is a clear signal to workers that they should not expect any salary in the first six months of Eleka’s administration if he wins, even though N19b is allegedly hidden in the accounts of a construction company for safe-keeping for alleged personal comfort.

    “We are worried that within four months, Ekiti State’s debts have risen from N56b to N117b without commensurate development projects except reports of property acquisitions across the nation allegedly traced to the governor.

    “It is also worrisome that despite the latest DMO’s figure of N117b, Fayose has allegedly borrowed N9b with suffocation conditions from a South South governor to prosecute Eleka’s election.

    “This irresponsible transaction has already drawn the anger of the Rivers State indigenes and Rivers State chapter of APC in particular, who urged the two partners to stop spending public funds for private comfort while their people suffer.”

    Regretting that Fayose had allegedly turned Ekiti State to a “trading post”, Olujobi asked the governor to account for the bailout and budget support facility he collected to pay salary but were allegedly diverted to self-serving projects.

    “Fayose for a very long time denied that he collected N2b ecological fund before he owned up after APC was about getting the facts with the Freedom of Information (FOI) law.

    “He denied collecting monthly N1.3b Budget Support Facility for 13 months to pay salary before the Federal Government exposed him.

    “Local governments allocations are illegally hijacked with threats while, repeatedly, Fayose lied that he never borrowed one kobo only to be exposed by DMO that he had borrowed N56b, which has now jumped to N117b without the approval of his rubber-stamped House of Assembly.

    “By now, Ekiti workers ought to know that by this latest debts figure of N117b, there is no way Fayose can sustain his lie that the state has no money to pay workers; he is deliberately denying workers their entitlements while Ekiti people are denied development projects for the comfort of one man in position of authority.

    “This is callous, and a deliberate punishment of Ekiti people by a man who believes that Ekiti State exists only for his private comfort while 2.7m Ekiti people suffer,” he explained.

  • Ekiti 2018: Workers accuse Fayose of illegal data capturing

    The Enlightened Workers Forum (EWF), an interest group in the Ekiti State work force, has raised an alarm over an alleged plot by Governor Ayodele Fayose to rig the July 14 governorship election in favour of his party, PDP candidate Prof Kolapo Olusola Eleka.

    The group in a press statement made available to The Nation on Friday, said it has uncovered the voter’s card data capturing going on at the Peace Corps of Nigeria, Ekiti State Command Headquarters in Oke Ila area of Ado-Ekiti and Fajuyi mini pavilion.

    The EWF in a statement by its Coordinator, Mike Bamidele, maintained that the Ekiti Command of the PCN was acting on an agreement had with
    Fayose to collate, according to the Wards, Polling Units, the VIN and serial numbers on the voter’s cards belonging to members of the Corps.

    Denying the alleged rigging plot, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lanre Ogunsuyi, described the allegation as a figment of imagination of the group.

    Ogunsuyi said: “This is a figment of their imagination, all parties are busy mobilizing and training their supporters, party agents and enlightening the electorate ahead of the election.

    “No worker has submitted his card for any pecuniary gain and no cloning of cards is going on as alleged. What is going on are political parties, PCN members are free to join any political meeting of their choice.”

    The EWF said the alleged action was aimed at cloning the cards and double the vote count during the governorship election for the PDP candidate to emerge victorious at the poll.

    It claimed that Fayose had also requested for the bank details of the PCN members that have already submitted their PVCs for the purported data capturing with a promise to give each PCN members N10,000 a day to the election through bank alert.

    The group said: “Fayose, in his desperate moves to coerce the PCN Ekiti State Command into his devilish political tricks as the next month governorship election draws near had given the non-governmental security outfit State Employment Forms and promised to enlist their members into the State Public Service and also mobilize them as a secret security personnel to perpetrate rigging in the next month governorship election.

    “We advise the Ekiti State Command of the Peace Corps of Nigeria to steer clear of Fayose’s political antics ahead of July 14 governorship poll and not be party to any activity that could denigrate the good public image of the organisation.”

    Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has warned Fayose against illegal collection of workers’ voter cards through coercion, saying “voters have inalienable right to vote for candidate of their choice.”

    An official circular was sighted in which Fayose ordered school principals and some interest groups among teachers to collect the names, bank accounts and voter cards details of teachers in public schools for profiling.

    A statement by Director, Media and Publicity of the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Wole Olujobi, urged Fayose to stop alleged criminal and unauthorised collection of teachers and workers’ PVC numbers.

    Fayemi said workers should be allowed to cast their votes for their preferred candidates in the coming election without any fear of intimidation by the government or its officials.

    He added that compelling workers and teachers to submit their PVC numbers as a condition for salary and running grants payment or promotion amounted to undue intimidation and crude blackmail.

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    Fayemi made these declarations while speaking with reporters in his Isan-Ekiti country home in Oye Local Government, the last town he visited in his three-week campaign tours of the 132 towns and villages in the 16 local government areas of the state.

    The APC candidate promised to provide visionary leadership through his Eight-point Agenda to redirect the state to the path of growth and development after four years of rudderless leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

    He lamented that Fayose shut down the School of Agriculture Technology in Isan Ekiti and took away all the tractors and other modern farming tools in the school “at a time many other states are breaking new
    grounds in agriculture development and food sufficiency”.

    Fayemi explained that the College of Agriculture was designed to assist in training manpower in the agriculture sector that would in turn boost agricultural production in the state.

    He also lamented that Fayose “out of ignorance” stopped the Youth in Commercial Agricultural Development (YCAD) scheme by his administration, saying that all the poor decisions by Fayose’s administration had drastically affected agricultural production in the state.

    Fayemi promised to re-open the College of Agriculture and revitalise YCAD scheme, including other social security and empowerment schemes initiated by his last administration.

    He also said that the state government under his watch would build one cottage industry in each of the local government areas to provide
    employment for the teeming youth.

  • Fayemi faults Fayose’s claim on Paris Club refund

    The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation has debunked claims by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the Federal Government is deliberately delaying disbursement of Paris Club cash to states of the federation to hurt Ekiti State’s bid to pay workers salary.

    Fayose had said the alleged move by the federal government was to incapacitate Ekiti State from paying workers salary to enable the All Progressives Congress (APC) use non-payment of salary as a campaign tool against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Prof. Olusola Eleka, in the July 14 governorship election.

    A statement by Fayose’s media aide also alleged that Dr. Kayode Fayemi’s administration plunged the state into debt, including leaving two months’ salaries unpaid and that N35.34b was being deducted every month from Ekiti allocations to service the debt.

    He argued that if the governor had N35.34billion, he would not owe workers.

    But a statement issued by the Director of Media and Publicity for the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Wole Olujobi, faulted the claims, saying Fayose was using cheap blackmail to get undeserved public sympathy and support ahead of the July 14 poll.

    Olujobi said  Ekiti total debts while Fayemi was leaving office, according to DMO, was N18billion.

    He added that contrary to claim that Fayemi owed two- month salary, the administration owed just one month salary mainly because Fayose threatened banks not to grant Fayemi a standing facility to pay salary ahead of Abuja allocation.

    He said: “This is a cheap blackmail and characteristic propaganda by Fayose who has taken Ekiti people for fools as he often derides them among his friends. How can one claim that N35.34b is being spent to service a debt of N18b?

    “How can the Federal Government cripple all the states because of the election in Ekiti State as if President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is like President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration that paid Ecological Fund cash to PDP’s states but refused to pay APC states?

    “How did Fayose spend the Paris Club refunds he earlier collected to pay salary but refused to pay workers?

    “Fayose collected a bailout of about N20b in two tranches for workers’ salary but diverted all to self-serving projects having earlier taken N2b CBN small-scale business credit scheme but never release one kobo to any small-scale business owner.”

     

  • Court grants APC leave to serve defected lawmakers

    Court grants APC leave to serve defected lawmakers

    The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has granted the prayers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State to serve the six APC members who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the originating motion and motion on notice seeking them to vacate their seats.

    A statement by the Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Wole Olujobi, said the party sued the defected members, asking them to vacate their seats, having defected to another party without reasons precedent to that action as stipulated in the constitution.

    The defendants are Israel Olowo, Alex Ade Ojo, Dele Joseph Olugbemi, Ayoka Fatunmbi, Adeyinka Adeloye and Abeni Modupe Olayinka. Others are the PDP and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    In the suit before Mr Justice A.F.A Ademola of the Federal High Court and filed by Mrs K. Uzoanya, a counsel in Tunji Abayomi law firm, the plaintiff asked the court to issue and serve the originating summons and motion on notice on the defendants through themselves, by courier services or the Clerk of the Assembly, Ado-Ekiti.

    Justice Ademola granted all the reliefs directing that the originating summons and motion on notice be served on the defendants directly or through courier services or through the Clerk of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Ado-Ekiti, being the only known address of the defendants.

    The judge fixed December 16 as the return date for the case.

     

     

  • Ekiti Speaker’s aide alleges threat to life

    Ekiti Speaker’s aide alleges threat to life

    Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Wole Olujobi has alleged threats to his life.

    He called on President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in Ekiti State to spare his life.

    Olujobi, in a statement, said he had been receiving calls to leave Ekiti State over reports of plans to attack him.

    The aide, who said he would have ignored the calls, said he was calling the President’s attention because of reports of “strange men loitering around my home at Ijan-Ekiti last night whose mission was not known”.

    Olujobi recalled the relationship between him and government leaders in the past over the roles he played in reporting the events leading to the assassination of his cousin, Dr. Ayodeji Daramola, on August 14, 2006.

    He said his purported sack as the Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker by Governor Ayo Fayose was a reprisal for reporting and telling the police all the events that led to the death of his cousin.

    Olujobi insisted that he and others purportedly sacked still remained the Speaker’s aides because the governor does not have the power to remove them.

    He said the House of Assembly was an independent arm of government that enjoys autonomy from the Executive.

    “The sacking of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker’s aides is a smokescreen. I am the target of the sack. The governor still sees me as his enemy who contributed to his impeachment.

    “My problem is that I told Nigerians and the world how my cousin was haunted to death during Fayose’s first stint as governor.

    “Dr Daramola told me how he was forced to renounce his governorship ambition on the state media. His voice was heard six times a day on the state media renouncing his ambition. We have all the records till today.

    “Few days ago, suspects arrested in connection with the assassination were reportedly missing in Ado-Ekiti prison where they had been held since 2006.

    “Four days after my cousin’s assassination, two men visited my house demanding to see me. They claimed that they gave me money to help them publish a story.

    “My co-tenant, who they met at the gate, suspected foul play and deceived them that there was no journalist living in the house.

    “I reported the incident at Ebenezer Police Station at Ojokoro, Lagos and office of the then Lagos Police Commissioner, Emmanuel Adebayo, who is now the Elemure of Emure Ekiti.

    “The next day, I received a threat text message sent through an MTN line, 08068978526. Later, some suspects were arrested, including Taye Olanipekun, who my neighbour identified as one of the men, who came to my house.

    “I am calling on the President to prevail on the powers-that-be in Ekiti State to save me. I also urge my colleagues to continue to push for the restoration of sanity in Ekiti State that is fast slipping into brigandage after four years of uninterrupted peace.”