Indications have emerged that the trio of Senator Babafemi Ojudu,
Lagos based lawyer; Mr Femi Falana (SAN) and former Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) governorship aspirant who is now in the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Mr Yinka Akerele are now working hand-in-hand
towardsfoisting another political instability on Ekiti State by
encouraging President Mohammadu Buhari to declare a state of emrgency
in the State.
The trio of Ojudu, Falana and Akerele were the arrowheads of the 2006
impeachment of Governor Ayodele Fayose that was later declared illegal
by the Supreme Court. The impeachment led to the declaration of a
state of emergency in the State.
Sources said Ojudu confided in some of his associates last week that
it will be difficult for the APC to return to power in the State in
2018 with Fayose still in office and that everything must be done to
get the governor out before the end of 2017, even if it will require
foisting anarchy on the State.
Ojudu was said to have been banking on getting the House of Assembly
to impeach Governor Fayose innitially but he met brickwall each time
he made overture to any of the 26 members of the House of Assembly.
“The last straw that broke the camel’s back was what Hon Wale Ayeni
did when Ojudu called him few weeks ago. Wale Ayeni put Ojudu on
speakerphone for Governor Fayose to listen to all that he said and
went further to release his call logs, showing Ojudu’s calls to the
public. That jolted Ojudu so much that he concluded that it will be
difficult to get Fayose removed through the House of Assembly, hence
the emergency option,” a source said.
One of the sources said a retired army colonel from a State in the
North West has been suggested to be appointed as Sole Administrator
for Ekiti State in the event that the state of emergency option scaled
through.
Ojudu, who is said to be interested in the State governorship
positionallegedly boasted that his position as the Special Adiviser on
Political Matters to the President will be used to get the president
to buy into the “state of emergency option.”
Another of the sources disclosed that another protest will be
organised by the APC in the next few weeks in which not less than five
people will be killed.
Those to carry out the attack on the protesters are said to have
already been arranged and they were programmed to apear as working for
Governor Fayose to distrupt the protest.
“The game plan was that the last Friday protest led by Mrs Motunde
Fajuyi will be distrupted by Fayose’s supporters so that there will be
choas. But it appeared the governor read their game very well and
prevailed on his supporters to ignore the protest.
“Because of the failure of that protest to achieve its purpose,
another one is now being planned. This time around, the attack will be
carried out by their own people thinking that the moment people are
killed, there will be breakdown of law and order and that will be an
excuse to declare a state of emergency in the State.
“However, one major contraint that they have now is the National
Assembly which must ratify the state of emergency before it can take
full effect. Another constraint is who will be governor among the
gladiators in the APC, especially Ojudu and Falana.
“Also, how to justify the emergency declaration is still a major issue
because some of the close confidants of President Buhari are of the
opinion that if state of emergency was not declared in Benue State
where over 500 Agatus were killed by Fulani herdsmen, Niger Delta
States where oil installations are being bombed and governors of the
North Easten States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe were not removed when
state of emergency was imposed on the States, there may be no
justification for imposition of state emergency on Ekiti State even if
five people are killed during protest.
“Falana is already playing the Ekiti South Agenda card while Ojudu is
of the opinion that Ado-Ekiti with the largest voting population must
get the governorship.
