Governor Ayodele Fayose has stayed between many truths and lies since returning into power.
Any support given him by the press is concluded as a work of bribed writers. As his opposition to many voices grow stronger so do many executive members go behind saying what he says are all lies, receiving numerous harassments despite his immunity as governor forgetting their own unfinished allegations. Fayose had remained at least quite factual and reasonable sometimes to Ekiti State besides the voices that his re-election into governorship is a ruse.
Another issue is that of the resolved face-off with a section of petroleum products dealers in Ekiti State over stoppage of work on their site and demolition of structures in four petrol stations in Ado Ekiti. The manner in which the petrol dealers went about their protest was seriously suggestive of external interest with political undertone. Facts available to the media indicate that Fayose government was acting rightly. It’s nearly impossible to embark on restructuring of a city or sanitizing crooked town planning without some structures giving way. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo decided to implement Abuja master plan as executed by then Federal Capital Territory, FCT, minister, Nasir el-Rufai, several houses including those of the high and the mighty were demolished. According to a report, all the four affected filling stations have issues which render the building of the gas stations illegal. It was alleged, if not politically calculated, that their-petrol dealers-strike action was to embarrass and intimidate the state government especially in the week of the state burial of the late General Adeyinka Adebayo, knowing that the state will host dignitaries from across the country. Government ordered stoppage of work on the four filling stations located at Iworoko Road, Adebayo, and Irona areas of Ado-Ekiti. Only the two in Irona area have gone beyond foundation stage. One was located on water pathway, while the other was almost encroaching into a public primary school.
“As we speak, I don’t know which political party platform we are going to run until the coast is clear. Let those running ahead of time relax and wait for the right time. Meanwhile, do they know that they have to allow me finish my tenure before another person can take over? Lest I forget, the Supreme Court had nullified my impeachment as illegal, so, maybe they should please add the remaining seven months of my previous tenure to this one. Then, we are good to go,” he sarcastically said. Even an ignoramus knows that Fayose can’t run again. It’s a joke taken too far. On his part, the Chairman of the South-West Zone of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Debo Ahmed, accused Ekiti State government of demolishing filling stations owned by politicians who are not members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the state. He added that the affected filling stations had valid documents and approval to operate. However, the government insisted the owners of the demolished stations contravened town planning laws of the state. But according to a statement by Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, “He (Debo Ahmed) should tell Nigerians the owners of petrol stations demolished and the parties they belong to. It is such a puerile argument coming from people who believe they should be worshiped like gods even when they are flagrantly contravening the laws of the state and endangering the lives of the people.” Now that the petrol dealers’ issue had been tentatively resolved, let’s wait and see how far this vicious circle of conspiracy and political shenanigans will go before the Ekiti governorship election next year. It’s an open secret that every move to discredit Fayose is a ploy to wrest power from his camp and political party in the state.
Another issue is that of the resolved face-off with a section of petroleum products dealers in Ekiti State over stoppage of work on their site and demolition of structures in four petrol stations in Ado Ekiti. The manner in which the petrol dealers went about their protest was seriously suggestive of external interest with political undertone. Facts available to the media indicate that Fayose government was acting rightly. It’s nearly impossible to embark on restructuring of a city or sanitizing crooked town planning without some structures giving way. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo decided to implement Abuja master plan as executed by then Federal Capital Territory, FCT, minister, Nasir el-Rufai, several houses including those of the high and the mighty were demolished. According to a report, all the four affected filling stations have issues which render the building of the gas stations illegal. It was alleged, if not politically calculated, that their-petrol dealers-strike action was to embarrass and intimidate the state government especially in the week of the state burial of the late General Adeyinka Adebayo, knowing that the state will host dignitaries from across the country. Government ordered stoppage of work on the four filling stations located at Iworoko Road, Adebayo, and Irona areas of Ado-Ekiti. Only the two in Irona area have gone beyond foundation stage. One was located on water pathway, while the other was almost encroaching into a public primary school.
“As we speak, I don’t know which political party platform we are going to run until the coast is clear. Let those running ahead of time relax and wait for the right time. Meanwhile, do they know that they have to allow me finish my tenure before another person can take over? Lest I forget, the Supreme Court had nullified my impeachment as illegal, so, maybe they should please add the remaining seven months of my previous tenure to this one. Then, we are good to go,” he sarcastically said. Even an ignoramus knows that Fayose can’t run again. It’s a joke taken too far. On his part, the Chairman of the South-West Zone of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, Debo Ahmed, accused Ekiti State government of demolishing filling stations owned by politicians who are not members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the state. He added that the affected filling stations had valid documents and approval to operate. However, the government insisted the owners of the demolished stations contravened town planning laws of the state. But according to a statement by Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, “He (Debo Ahmed) should tell Nigerians the owners of petrol stations demolished and the parties they belong to. It is such a puerile argument coming from people who believe they should be worshiped like gods even when they are flagrantly contravening the laws of the state and endangering the lives of the people.” Now that the petrol dealers’ issue had been tentatively resolved, let’s wait and see how far this vicious circle of conspiracy and political shenanigans will go before the Ekiti governorship election next year. It’s an open secret that every move to discredit Fayose is a ploy to wrest power from his camp and political party in the state.
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