Ekiti State Governor,
Mr Ayo Fayose has discarded Mr Femi Falana’s claim that he was providing
cover for armed gangs to operate in the state, stating that such claim is beneath his person as a governor.
Speaking in Ado-Ekiti yesterday through his Chief Press
Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the governor wondered why the Lagos-based lawyer
would always stand truth on the head. Continue..
The governor, who was reacting to a comment by Falana in a
national daily that the governor was the one sponsoring armed hoodlums to
operate in the state described Falana as a hypocritical political merchant, who
always kept silent whenever APC controlled States are involved.
He asked; “Is this not hypocrisy? And Falana did not find it
important to ask those All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled states what
they have done with their workers’ salaries if truly he is a human rights activist
as he claims to be.
“Hypocrisy has made Falana not to say a word on the collapse
of the judiciary and the legislative arms of government in some APC controlled
states. Or is the judiciary in Rivers working? And has Falana said a single
word on the collapse of the judiciary in Rivers State?
While urging Falana to live up to the meaning of his name by
minding his own business, Fayose wondered why the lawyer would be pretentious
about some issues and act to be a defender in others not involving his friends
and paymasters.
“Falana should be ignored because he is fond of beating
about the bush and his utterances are always dictated by the percentage of
stomach infrastructure from his paymasters.
“I have never and will never provide official cover for
armed gangs.
‘’It is only a governor or leader that is not popular or
loved by his people that would adopt such unconventional means to rule,” he
said.
The governor said his being loved by Ekiti people was
further demonstrated in the last general elections by the pattern the people
voted for his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The governor added that instead of Falana advising his
paymasters in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and calling them to order, he
was rather leading them astray.
“The reason Nigerians should stop paying attention to any
comment by Falana on Ekiti is that murder cases involving a former governor and
four lawmakers, are pending in various courts and Falana kept quiet and
pretended as if nothing happened.
“It is this same man, who as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,
ought to protect and encourage the protection of the judiciary, is the one
underneath encouraging the APC lawmakers to disrespect court orders all in the
name of politics.
“It is this same party of his, which owes workers seven
months salary in Osun and four months in Oyo and Ogun that is crying every day
in the press over a little delay in the payment of April salary in Ekiti,” he
concluded.
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