Politics
Gov Fayose Spends Massively To Scuttle Impeachment Plot, His Game Plan As He Intensely Lobbies Traditional Rulers, Other Stakeholders Ahead April 11 Election
That there is a role reversal in Ekiti state is no longer news.
Governor Ayo Fayose has become the hunted as the 19 lawmakers he illegally engineered their sack seek to impeach him.
The hunted turned hunter found confidence in the emergence of the takeover of the Federal Government by their party, All Progressives Congress.
The party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari beat re election seeking incumbent Gooduck Jonathan to the throne.
Fayose belongs to the same political party as the ousted President and has to contend as being a governor in the opposition rank for the rest of his term – this is against the background of the beyond the border of
Gov Ayo Fayose
decorum campaign he waged against the President elect.
The 19 Ekiti state lawmakers formerly cowering under the influence of federal might that Fayose drew his power had immediately sought to effect his sack leveraging on the recent change at the poll.
They had issued an impeachment notice against him and attempted to gain entry into the state house of assemble to achieve their aim.
But the embattled Governor had utilised street antis to thwart the move. He mobilised supporters from different corners in and out of the state and deployed them to barricade entry points of the law makers seeking to sack him from office.
According to an insider ‘the ploy is simple…all Governor Fayose is seeking to ensure is that they don’t access the Ekiti state house of assemble before Saturday April 11 election date’
According to the permutation related to societynowng.com Fayose and his handlers are operating on the premise that technically the tenure of the sitting lawmakers ends with the election of new lawmakers – hence the excessive ploy to stop them from seating before election date.
Further digs revealed outside this, the Governor is also lobbying traditional rulers and stakeholders to ensure candidates sweep the Assemble seats in the upcoming eletion.
‘he understands that with the change in government at the federal level and the manner he campaigned against the new occupier of the oval office, the party now in control and the promoters…he needs to have control of the Ekiti state house assemble to have a fighting chance at survival and he is desperately trying hard to achieve that with election barely 48hrs away’ an on the ground source divulged.
Digs by societynwng.com revealed that Governor is spending massively to secure support of voters as engages in round the clock sessions and victory strategy formulation engagements.
Maintained a source the Governor is currently doling out huge patronage to support group of agitators and votes canvassers to achieve his objectives.
Maintain a source ‘what makes his support canvassing expenses bigger now is that, he does not have the allure of federal government support to leverage on again and it is an open secret that he is one man the opposition have strong interest in’
Insiders disclosed that the opposition – APC- backed with the allure of Federal power are meeting him headlong in the spending for support in the hope of to seizing control of state house assemble by claiming majority win in the upcoming house of assemble election on April 11.
‘It is a do or die situation for gov fayose’ a source defined the situation.


