Fayose plans using thugs to kidnap us – APC lawmakers

The 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly have raised the alarm over an alleged plot by Governor Ayodele Fayose to use thugs to kidnap them.


They urged the governor to stop trailing them, saying it is evil to also plot to take their families out of circulation in order to force them to stop the impeachment move against him.


The lawmakers said the latest move‎ on their kidnap plan had exposed the insincerity of the governor in calling a truce meeting this week to seek an end to the Ekiti State House of Assembly crisis.
But Fayose described the allegation as “one of the usual false rants of people afraid of their own shadows.”

He urged the people to ignore the APC lawmakers, whom he described as “a bunch of outcasts throwing stones at home.”
The lawmakers, in a statement by Wole Olujobi, Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker, Adewale Omirin, said Fayose remained “the main obstacle to peace in Ekiti State.”
They wondered why a governor, seeking peace, should be on their trail and planning to kidnap some of them or in the alternative, seize their children for ransom.

The statement read, “We note the surveillance activities of the governor by the accurate and inaccurate accounts of our movements as posted on the facebook wall of his aide, Lere Olayinka.
“We can’t ‎ignore the information by our usually reliable sources about this kidnap plan. The governor is capable of any evil. We have it on good authority that he is on our trail just to arrest some of us so that we don’t have the quorum for his impeachment.
“The alternative is to kidnap members of our family, particularly our children in their schools, by a faceless gang calling themselves a concerned Ekiti State non-political ‎group to hide their political identity. They are to insist that the lawmakers must drop their impeachment plan or the children will be killed.”

The lawmakers called the attention of security agents to this evil plot, saying their concern should not be treated with levity.
“The governor cannot swear with his Holy Bible that he did not celebrate the plan in the Government House to arrest us on our way to the peace meeting at Afe Babalola University.
“We want him to swear with his Bible, a real Holy Bible, and not a copy of English Dictionary draped with the hard cover of the Holy Bible that he has been using to deceive the public when he is planning his evils and at the same time swearing with a fake Bible that he knows nothing about the allegations against him,” the statement added.

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