New Ekiti Speaker accuses Fayemi of trying to impeach him

The newly elected Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Gboyega Aribisogan has accused former Governor of the State Kayode Fayemi of plotting to remove him from office.

Aribisogan was elected speaker on Tuesday to fill in the void left by former Speaker Funminiyi Afuye who had died.

The House was however shut by the Police on Wednesday after the police said they received an intelligence report of an impending attack on the assembly complex.

Speaking on Channels TV programme Sunday Politics, Aribisogan accused Fayemi of being behind the assembly’s travails, saying he enjoyed the support of majority of his colleagues.

“The majority of members of Assembly voted for me but few of them who felt perhaps I did not follow the directive of the former governor, Dr Fayemi, thought that they would make the state ungovernable for even the administration,” Aribisogan said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

“I didn’t have any quarrel with him. I sent a message to him even last night asking, ‘What is happening? Am I no longer one of your loyalists? Why did you not congratulate me?’

“Up till now that I’m speaking with you, he has not done anything. Otherwise, he has been going around calling our members to go and impeach me tomorrow. That is the truth.

“As I’m speaking with you, seven of our members are locked up in Fem Guest House in Ado Ekiti, planning on how to impeach me tomorrow in cahoots with some of his former aides like the former commissioner for justice.”