Fayose's Alarm over Impeachment Stalls Schools’ Resumption

Following the panic that engulfed Ekiti State over an alarm raised by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers had perfected plans to invade the Assembly on Monday, public and private institutions operating in the State failed to resume activities on Monday to commence the third term academic session.

Fayose had in a statewide broadcast on Sunday alleged that the Hon Adewale Omirin-led APC lawmakers were planning to storm the Assembly on Monday and begin his impeachment, calling on the people to mobilize and defend the mandate freely given to him.

When newsmen visited the State Secretariat in Ado Ekiti, which is the converging point for civil servants , few workers reported to their duty posts to offer skeletal services for the political
functionaries over fear of attack

The roads leading to the Assembly was barricaded by security agencies while the Assembly complex was under lock and key, stern-looking heavily armed policemen who blocked all the major roads linking to the complex, only few vehicles that were passage were thoroughly
checked to pass

Peoples Democratic Party members who were mobilized by Caretaker Chairmen in all the 16 Local Government Areas , also laid siege to the Assembly

The party members were seen in clusters at every strategic point around the Complex and kept vigil to prevent the lawmakers from being brought in to perfect the impeachment plot against Fayose.

In some of the schools visited in Ado Ekiti, particularly the public schools, few teachers and pupils were on ground, which signaled that the tension must have created fears in the minds of the people.

Public and private schools in Ekiti State were supposed to resume for third term on Monday, which the tension elicited by the impeachment saga had stalled.

Though, the protesters did not mount barricades at all the entry points into Ado Ekiti capital city from other neighbouring States, as they had been doing since the protests against the plot to remove Fayose commenced