Governor Ayodele Fayose
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State.
In a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said the impeachment plot, being arranged in connivance with the Police, was a recipe for crisis.
He said: “The PDP is aware that the plot is a desperate bid by the APC to rush into the Ekiti Government House to remove and tamper with documents and evidence confirming the rigging of the July 14 governorship election, ahead of the sitting of the election tribunal.
“Having realized that there is no way their daylight robbery at the poll can stand in the court, the APC is now employing all desperate means to subvert the course of justice.
“This explains why a detachment of the Police can be hurriedly deployed to besiege the Ekiti State Assembly Complex last night without a formal request by the Speaker, the Clerk or the Sergeant-at-Arms, who is the chief security officer of the complex.”
The former ruling party also stated that any resort to underhand measures to impeach Fayose, without the constitutionally required 2/3 of the members of the House, particularly at this time, when the lawmakers are currently on their annual recess, will surely be resisted by our members.