Ekiti Speaker not saying the truth -PDP Chair The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has said the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin, lied when he alleged that Governor Ayodele Fayose was blackmailing the legislators for their refusal to screen the commissioner nominees. The party said no amount of “blackmail or any form of political shenanigans can truncate this administration as the governor will continue with his developmental vision. In a statement made available to journalists on Thursday, the state Chairman, Chief Idowu Falaye, explained that the Assembly had no reason not to clear the nominees because it was the legislators that demanded for their names and credentials which were submitted promptly. He alleged that the Assembly, after receiving a contrary order from their masters, hurriedly removed the issue from its agenda for the day. 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. “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 in 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. “I can only deduce one thing from this situation that the lawmakers are acting on 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 recalled that former Governor Kayode Fayemi of the APC assumed office at the time the 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,” he added. Faleye, who stated that the APC legislators under Fayemi were passing three to eight bills within a day warned that the action of the lawmakers was capable of drawing back the wheels of progress in the state which would only put their names in the black book of Ekiti sons and daughters. “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 inacations while in the hallowed chamber would become the judgement of your personality in future,” Faleye said.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:58:05 +0000