PDP raises the alarm over alleged plot to impeach Fayose

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop its allegedly plot to impeach Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose or attract dire consequences.

The party claimed that the impeachment plot, which is being arranged in connivance with the Police, is a recipe for crisis in the peaceful state.

This was contained in statement made available in Abuja on Thursday by the PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

The PDP , he said, was aware of the plot by the APC to rush into the Ekiti Government House to remove and tamper with documents and evidence confirming the rigging of the July 14 governorship election, ahead of the sitting of the election tribunal.

The party said, ” Having realized that there is no way their daylight robbery at the poll can stand in the court, the APC is now employing all desperate means to subvert the course of justice.

“This explains why a detachment of the Police can be hurriedly deployed to besiege the Ekiti State Assembly Complex last night without a formal request by the Speaker, the Clerk or the Sergeant-at-Arms, who is the chief security officer of the complex”.

The party stated that any resort to underhand measures to impeach Fayose, without the constitutionally required two-thirds of the members of the House, particularly at a time when the lawmakers are currently on their annual recess, will surely be resisted by its members.

Accusing the APC of plotting crisis all over the nation and resorting to the use of harassment, intimidation and brute force against the people and our democratic institutions, PDP warned that these dispositions of APC and its Federal Government portend grave danger for the nation.

“Now that the political and parliamentary establishment of the Ekiti House of Assembly has loudly declared that they do not require the services of the detachment of policemen, the PDP urges the APC to immediately withdraw their armed agents from the premises of the House of Assembly”, the party said.

The PDP urged the judiciary to be firm in standing by the truth on the Ekiti election and not be cowed or intimidated by the threats and pressure coming from the APC.