Factional speaker threatens APC lawmakers

Ado Ekiti—The factional Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Dele Olugbemi, has raised the alarm that his All Progressives Congress, APC, colleagues in the House are working tirelessly with outsiders  to ensure that a state of emergency is declared in Ekiti State.

Olugbemi told newsmen in Ado Ekiti yesterday at a press briefing that the APC lawmakers have a ‘Plan B’ against the governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, should the move to impeach him fail.

Olugbemi, who boasted of being a member of the Odua People’s Congress, OPC, said there was no where in the constitution of Nigeria where it was stated that persons can not belong to voluntary organizations or practice traditional medicine.

In his reaction, Dr Adewale Omirin, through his media assistant, Wole Olujobi, told Vanguard: ‘’All these things Dele Olugbemi is saying are not true. Nobody is planning anything to instigate a state of emergency.

‘’Olugbemi is barely educated and so he knows little about  representative governance. It is good that he confessed that he is a member of a militia group, OPC, that thrives in arbitrariness and mob tactics in resolving issues.

‘’That is what he has been demonstrating and Governor Fayose was so impressed because they are the same.

‘’That is why the governor baptised him with the name of Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker and he is so happy to be so called without acting the character of a Speaker.
‘’How does a party that is not in power instigate action or actions that will lead to a declaration of a state of emergency? Olugbemi is acting loud, calling public attention to himself.

‘’ This is a man who on a live television programme last week castigated Fayose for running a one-man-show government and virtually asking Ekiti people to warn the governor to change his style.
‘’ I will advise that Olugbemi be ignored because he is an unstable character who in one minute is befriending you and the next moment he turns your enemy. ‘’

Olugbemi who allegedly emerged the Speaker of the House last year November after the seven PDP members claimed to have impeached  Omirin, said his APC counterparts in the House are working in concert with certain politicians in both Osun and Lagos States, adding that they have made an overture to him to dump Fayose and support the 19 APC lawmakers in their bid to impeach the governor