According to this Premium Times report, A survey carried out to test the peoples feelings about the impeachment hammer dangling over Gov. Ayo Fayose by the state assembly members. The poll result was not anywhere near favouring the controversial and outspoken governor. Read the full report after the cut..
Majority of Nigerians surveyed in a PREMIUM TIMES poll have called for the impeachment of the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose.
The poll, which had 1,942 respondents, was created to gauge public perception of the ongoing impeachment saga rocking Ekiti State.
Nineteen APC lawmakers of the state House of Assembly are bent on impeaching the controversial state governor, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The respondents were asked: “What do you think about the impeachment plot against Governor Ayo Fayose?”
In their responses 1,529 participants, representing 78.93 per cent, voted, “He should be impeached.”
On the other hand, 16.01 per cent, that is 311 respondents, said he should not be impeached, while 82, representing 4.22 per cent, responded “I don’t care.”
The 19 APC legislators had two weeks ago served a notice of impeachment on Mr. Fayose, and forwarded a letter to the Chief Justice of the State, Ayodeji Daramola, asking him to constitute a panel to probe the governor.
The lawmakers were away from the state until recently, following the victory of the APC in the presidential election.
During their absence, seven PDP legislators were performing legislative duties which many consider illegal.
However, Justice Daramola has not constituted the panel as requested by the APC lawmakers. The seven PDP lawmakers, with Dele Olugbemi, as “Speaker”, had said the letter from the APC to the Chief Judge lacked effect.
On November 20, the PDP lawmakers, amid tight security provided by the police, sat and elected Mr. Olugbemi as speaker and Abeni Olayinka as his deputy.
They also approved some appointments into the governor’s cabinet and local government areas. While that happened, 19 APC members, including Mr. Omirin and his deputy, Adetunji Orisalade, were in Lagos.
The House, under Mr. Omirin, proceeded on recession almost immediately after Mr. Fayose was inaugurated.
The PDP viewed that as a ploy by the APC lawmakers to frustrate the newly inaugurated Fayose admistration, since the approval of the House is constitutionally required for various appointments by the governor, including that of the commissioners.
After the Supreme Court upheld his election last week and dismissed APC’s appeal, Mr. Fayose sounded conciliatory, expressing his readiness to pursue peace with the APC.
However on a recent live television broadcast, Mr. Fayose asked Ekiti people to defend their mandate from the APC lawmakers, who he claimed were invading the state to impeach him.
“My mandate is your mandate and you must defend it,” he said , urging public transport workers to pressure the Assembly against impeaching him.
The governor’s broadcast raised tension in the state, as both the Okada riders association and the National Union of Road Transport Workers issued statements, urging members to defend Mr Fayose’s mandate “with the last drop of our blood”.
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