The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has dared the All Progressives Congress (APC) to proceed with its planned attempt to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State at their own peril.
PDP said the APC should be prepared to face the dire consequences that would follow the action.
In a press signed by its National Publicity Secretary and posted on its official Twitter handle, @officialPDPNg, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said: “The PDP is aware that the plot is a desperate bid by the APC to rush into the Ekiti Government House to remove and tamper with documents and evidence confirming the (alleged) rigging of the July 14 governorship election, ahead of the sitting of the election tribunal.
“Having realised there is no way that their (alleged) 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 House of Assembly Complex last night without a formal request from the Speaker, Clerk or Sergeant-At-Arms, who is the chief security officer of the complex.”
PDP warned that any resort to underhand measures to impeach Fayose without the constitutionally required 2/3 of the members of the state House of Assembly, particular at this time, when the lawmakers are currently on their annual recess “will surely be resisted by our members.”
It accused the “APC of plotting crisis across 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 the APC and its Federal Government portend grave danger for our nation.”
“Now that political and parliamentary establishment of the Ekiti House of Assembly has loudly said that they do not require the services of policemen,” the APC should immediately withdraw their armed agents from the premises of the House of Assembly, ” PDP also said.