Please Intervene In Ekiti Crisis - Fayose, PDP Beg Buhari

Tension rose again in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Monday as supporters of the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and some Peoples Democratic Party members laid siege to the state House of Assembly in Ado Ekiti.

Their action was to prevent the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers from gaining entry to the assembly to actualize their move to impeach Fayose.

While the siege lasted, the national leadership of the PDP and Fayose urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the matter.

News had filtered into the state on Sunday night that the lawmakers had assembled in a hotel in a neighbouring state preparatory to sneaking into Ado Ekiti to remove Fayose and his deputy, Kolapo Olusola.

It was gathered that the news made the police to quickly cordon off the major roads leading to the Assembly complex with their patrol vans and an Armoured Personnel Carrier .

The PDP members and commercial motorcyclists blocked the secretariat and NTA roads which also lead to the complex.

As of 3p.m on Monday, the policemen, the PDP members and the commercial motorcyclists were still seen blocking the roads.

As the tension heightened, Fayose made a statewide broadcast during which he again called on the people to defend the mandate given to him by them.

After the broadcast, commercial life in the city went dead as traders hurriedly locked their shops while civil servants closed their offices and left for their homes.

Fayose had before the broadcast told journalists that all the entitlements of the APC lawmakers had been paid, contrary to Speaker Adewale Omirin’s denial.