The peace meeting called by eminent lawyer, Chief Afe Babalola, between Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, and the 19 legislators on the platform of the All Progressives Party (APC) failed yesterday. It was shunned by the lawmakers who alleged that the Governor planned to get them arrested at the venue. Fayose won the […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has said that it has been vindicated over its earlier warning that Governor Ayo Fayose’s announcement of an appointment committee to appoint Ekiti people to vacant positions in the civil service as well as political appointments is a ruse to draw support of the unsuspecting public to […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ekiti State, has urged the National Human Rights Commission and International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, to prosecute Governor Ayodele Fayose for over an inciting broadcast that threatened the peace of the state, recently. Its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said the move became compelling in the face […]
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja, has called on all political stakeholders inEkitiState, especially APC lawmakers, to embrace the new spirit of reconciliation, forgiveness and dialogue being offered by Governor Ayo Fayose. The PDP in a statemen by its National Publicity Secretary, OlisaMetuh, on Monday, commended Governor Fayose for extending an […]
Following the panic that engulfed Ekiti State over alarm raised by Governor Ayodele Fayose that the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers planned to invade the state House of Assembly on Monday, public and private schools in the state failed to reopen on Monday to commence the third term academic session. Fayose, had in a […]
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 […]
The 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly have reacted to the Sunday inciting broadcast by Governor Ayodele Fayose urging Ekiti people to rise against the lawmakers who he alleged were planning to resume their legislative duties on Monday (today). A statement by Special Adviser on Media to […]
The present Political crisis in Ekiti may soon be over as the man at the centre of the crisis, Governor Ayo Fayose at the weekend declared that he was ready for dialogue with the 19 APC lawmakers. Speaking at a special prayer session organized for him by the Ansarudeen Mosque, Odo-Out, Atikankan in Ado-Ekiti to […]
Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Tuesday erupted with joy as residents trooped out in their hundreds to celebrate the victory of Mr. Ayo Fayose at the Supreme Court. Scores of people, among them traders, Okada riders, students, vehicle drivers and party men and women of varied political divides abandoned work immediately the judgment was […]
The Supreme Court has affirmed Ayodele Fayose as the rightfully elected governor of Ekiti State in the election that held on the 21st of June 2014. The Judgment which was made this morning in a unanimous decision by the seven-man panel led by Justice John Fabiyi, the apex court maintained the earlier decisions of the […]
Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose, on Saturday night paraded the streets of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital in celebration of the victory of his Peoples Democratic Party in the House of Assembly election. The governor, who drove in a motorcade from his hometown, Afao-Ekiti, to Ado Ekiti, said his party’s victory had confirmed that the people […]
Ekiti State House of Assembly has written the State Chief Judge. Mr. Justice Ayodeji Daramola, asking him to set up a panel to investigate allegations raised in the impeachment notice to Governor Ayodele Fayose. A statement by Wole Olujobi, the Special Adviser to the factional Speaker, Dr Adewale Omirin, said the lawmakers held a special […]
Spirited efforts by Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose and his deputy, Dr. Kolapo Olusola, to stave off impending impeachment crumbled on Wednesday at an Abuja High Court. The court rejected their prayers contained in an ex parte application seeking interim injunction to set aside the impeachment notice served on them and halt further moves […]
Ekiti State was on the boil again yesterday. This time, soldiers, policemen, lawmakers and party thugs were in the thick of the conflagration. The unrest claimed a life. The cause was a coordinated protest during which major roads leading to Ado Ekiti were blocked to prevent 19 All Progressive Congress (APC) lawmakers from entering Ado […]
The war of words between the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose and the members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state House of Assembly seeking his impeachment continued on Monday. While the Governor took his cause to the residents of the state, the legislators accused him of instigating crisis. Fayose also […]
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose, risks impeachment if he fails to respond to the notice sent to him at the weekend, according to factional Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin. However, Fayose has continued to pooh-pooh the impeachment notice, adding that the people of the state who gave […]
Prophet Oladipo who is the General Overseer of Faith and Victory Church, Akure, has predicted that Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State and his counterpart in Ekiti, Governor Ayodele Fayose, will be impeached from office before December this year. Prophet Oladipo, who predicted the victory of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen […]
Mr Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor has advised All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the State House of Assembly to stop acting like jesters, saying; “The script being acted by the APC is a failed one because no one, no matter how highly placed will be allowed to test the will of Ekiti people.” The […]
Victory party organized by members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti yesterday turned awful as it was allegedly disrupted by gun weilding hoodlums who in the process destroyed five vehicles belonging to the members and an operative of the Department of State Services. The hoodlums allegedly attacked the party’s secretariat shortly after its members held […]
Ekiti state Governor Ayo Fayose has lifted the dawn to dusk curfew imposed on the state in the wake of the declaration of the results of the last presidential election won by Maj Gen Mohammed Buhari of the APC. Fayose in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Idowu Adelusi on Thursday said the curfew […]