Ekiti Monarchs Warn APC Lawmakers Against Impeaching Fayose

Traditional Rulers in Ekiti
State have warned the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the State House of Assembly against Governor Ayo Fayose.
The monarchs who rose from an emergency meeting on Wednesday, in Ado-Ekiti over the impeachment crisis rocking the state, said all attempts to impeach the governor should stop forthwith in the interest of peace.
The traditional rulers made their position public in a communiqué signed by the chairman of Ekiti State Council of Traditional Rulers, Oba Adamo Idowu-Babalola and made available to reporters yesterday.
The royal fathers said “they are deeply concerned and worried about the lingering political upheaval which became aggravated after the March 28 presidential election.”
They accused the APC legislators who form majority in the state assembly of “consistently frustrating all their peace moves by not attending meetings called for the purpose.”
The monarchs, however, appealed to Fayose to “graciously consider giving palliative measures to alleviate the sufferings of the agitating legislators” whose salaries and entitlements have not been paid since December last year on the orders of the governor.
They insisted that Fayose still remains the legitimate governor of Ekiti State and should be allowed to exercise the mandate given to him by the electorate in the June 21, 2014 governorship election.
The Obas also praised the State Chief Judge, Justice Ayodele Daramola, for “rising above partisan politics to uphold the tent of his office despite pressure from some quarters, urging him “to continue in the same spirit so as to ensure that the popular wish of the generality of the people is not subverted.”
The 19 state legislators had served Fayose and his deputy impeachment notice over alleged gross misconduct and abuse of office.