Assembly Crisis: Oshiomhole and Fayose Exchange Hot Words

The madness going on in Ekiti State where 7 members say they have impeached a Speaker in a house of 26 members is reverberating outside the state. Governors Adams Oshiomhole and Ayodele Fayose, of Edo and Ekiti, on Thursday exchanged hot words over the state of the legislature in their states.
Oshiomhole told Fayose not to drag his name into the "political gangsterism that has become peculiar with the Ekiti State Governor," but Fayose on his part said Oshiomhole lacked the moral right to comment on the developments in Ekiti when he had notmanaged the crisis in his state legislature well.
The Edo governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Peter Okhiria, said there was no crisis in the Edo State House of Assembly, and that 15 of the 24-member Assembly were members of the All Progressives Congress, while the other nine were of the Peoples Democratic Party.
He explained that out of the nine PDP members, three were on suspension while the seat of another member had been declared vacant.
But Fayose, who also reacted through his Special Adviser on Public Communications, Lere Olayinka, said that Oshiomhole perpetrated illegality by shifting the sitting of the Edo Assembly to Government House and that he should face the administration of his state and stop meddling in the affairs of Ekiti.
But Oshiomhole's statement read, "We find it utterly laughable and as the height of political childishness for the Ekiti State governor to hide behind his media aides and seek to drag the name of the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, into his crude gangster tactics, which he has re-introduced into Ekiti politics less than two months after assuming office.
"If the Ekiti governor is too lazy to read and too politically-illiterate to know what is happening in Edo State House of Assembly, we expected his psychedelic media aides to simply shut their loud mouths rather than behave like capering neophytes.
"Even a kindergarten knows that 15 is greater than 5. So if five PDP members decide to sit with three suspended members and another, whose seat was declared vacant, in a chamber which is undergoing renovation, then we can at best regard that as the height of crass legislative irresponsibility.
"It is ridiculous to even contemplate that the Ekiti governor and his media aides do not know that 15 is greater than five. For sure, they seem engrossed with their stomach infrastructure mantra, such a dubious contraption which can only be contrived by an ideologically-clueless and gluttonous administration.
"But for the kind of democracy we practice in Nigeria, where the PDP promotes and condones all manners of illegalities, inanities and shenanigans which have become the second nature of that party, Ayodele Fayose would have been cooling off his heels in 'prison' rather than brandishing the appellation of being a governor.
"We are thoroughly ashamed that Ekiti, hitherto known as the fountain of knowledge, is being reduced to a mindless bubble by a man running her affairs without a discernible direction like a drowning man clutching desperately at flotsam."
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