Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PRESS RELEASE: No Regrets Supporting Jonathan – Ekiti Governor Fayose

Nebudineze Adiele:

I hate to admit it, but you are more eloquent than myself on this matter.

But that admission should be confined only to the matter at hand; it should not be quoted in any other case.

And there you have it.


Bolaji Aluko


On Thursday, April 23, 2015, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via naijaintellects <naijaintellects@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Nothing short of impeachment and removal from office, of governor Ayo Fayose,  will suffice for justice in Ekiti state. I have no idea what the 19 legislators are cowardly waiting for in removing this scum bag who shamed Ekiti state and the post of governor.
> Fayose has demeaned every institution in Ekiti state; he should be impeached and removed before May 29, 2015, else he will consider himself above the law. The 19 legislators must go back to Ekiti and do their job. If Fayose starts trouble with thugs, president Jonathan, who he swindled by using money meant for his reelection to purchase property in Dubai, will declare a state of Emergency (that will include removing the governor) in Ekiti state. The legislators should stop being cowards by running away from this bus conductor turned governor. 
> Fayose desecrated the traditional rulers (by turning them into his errand boys); he desecrated the judiciary by vandalizing the courts, physically manhandling judges (one judge, at least), preventing a judge from issuing a decision, etc; he desecrated the legislature by practically sacking the members he did not like and who are in the majority. He has been accused of all sorts of criminal behaviors, including murder, yet he straddles around Nigeria like an untouchable. What else will Fayose do before the Ekiti legislature does its job of impeaching and kicking him out of office?
> Adding to his invincibility is the Supreme Court's cowardly and inexplicable declaration that his impeachment was unconstitutional, even though that was not a matter before it, and used that stupid conclusion to validate his constitutional prohibition from running for governor due his indictment by a Tribunal. 
> It's time that Nigerians understood that their Supreme Court is made up of cowardly, purchasable, and incompetent justices. The US Supreme Court would have relished an opportunity of the sort given to the Nigerian Supreme Court on Fayose; its decision would have been without regards to anything other than the law. The Nigerian Supreme Court, just as it shamefully did during Ibori's case (of having been convicted in the 1990s by an Abuja court for theft), shamed themselves by making up a stupid excuse just to not declare that Ayo Fayose was not eligible to run for governor when he did so. 
> The only solution to Fayose lies with the Ekiti legislature and they must fulfil their obligation by removing this animal who masquerades as governor. If they fail to do that before leaving office, they will go down in history as the worst cowards to come out of Yorobaland.  
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> Nebukadineze Adiele
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> Subject: [africanworldforum] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PRESS RELEASE: No Regrets Supporting Jonathan – Ekiti Governor Fayose
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> With he exception of Femi Ojudu, Ekiti's politics is a reflection of character flaws that you will see in Fayose and the Professor....  The politics in this region is ebola-like
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> From:"Mobolaji Aluko alukome@gmail.com [NIgerianWorldForum]" <NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com>
> Date:Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:43 PM
> Subject:[NIgerianWorldForum] Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - PRESS RELEASE: No Regrets Supporting Jonathan – Ekiti Governor Fayose
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>  
> Okey:
> You often surprise me by your unbridled partisanship.  During this election period, I bit my finger not to respond to some of your strange interventions.
> But on this matter of Ekiti, I shall respond briefly.
> Fayose was elected back in April 2014 and became Governor in October.  All that time he knew that this APC-dominated State Assembly would be there till June 2015.   Tell me:  did his election eliminate the prior election and mandate of these State Assembly members to the extent that:
> (1). Fayose shut them out from the HOA building
> (2. Stopped their salaries
> (3). Sponsored six members to impeach the Speaker and instal his puppet Speaker, with a rump Assembly approving his budget, etc
> (4). Sent thugs after each of them, hounding them out of the state, such that they could not campaign for their own seats;
> (5). Sack the Judiciary to preventi a particular hearing that you want to prevent?
> All because he feared that they would not cooperate with him and/or impeach him, which is part of their Constitutional duty, even if you or I do not like it.
> Come on, Where are your true democratic credentials, Okey?  If we don't like divided Execo and Legislature, then we should change the law.
> I do not know what anybody wants the 19 lawmakers to do BEFORE. Fayose recognizes their power, which he has just recognized  to include impeachment once again, when he is now running from pillar to post, because he initially thought it was a joke.  They have listed ten of fences against him, none of which he can deny running afoul of.
> Yes, he won the Governorship - by the way, that is not one of the impeachable offense - but he was not on the ballot in all the other elections, and truncating the powers of the 19 Lawmakers or sacking them were not on the ballot either.  So all his boasts about winning this or that election beyond the Govership is of no moment whatsoever.
> Also, all his whining about his support for President Jonathan has not been the issue at all in this matter.  He merely used that as a shield - and now see where he is.
> The fact of the matter is that Fayose  is a bad virus to us our Ekiti people, which may be with us for one more month, or afflicting us for four more years less six months.  His problem is post-partisanship, and is a question of egregious character.   He is a blight on our political landscape, as he stands left of mid left between the stubborn rusticity and equally stubborn (but more aloof) intellectualism of many Ekiti people.   Whichever be the case, this virus shall not kill us, and all this, Fayose inclusive, shall pass away.  
> The hubris that he displayed in the Press Release below exhibits in broad daylight his problem.  Was supporting Jonathan his problem when he was "impeached" the first time around?  Or was his support for Obasanjo, who is now his worst enemy that he abuses on every occasion?
> Absolutely not.
> And there you have it.
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> Bolaji Aluko
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> On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Okey Iheduru < okeyiheduru@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> While we hail Pres. Goodluck Jonathan for his statesmanship in conceding defeat by Maj-Gen. Buhari and letting peace reign in Nigeria, it would also be great if "the  irritants of unbridled ambitions, who are not only devoid of [the] spirit of sportsmanship but implacable even when all odds are against them and roundly rejected by the good people of ... [Ekiti]  state" could emulate the President's and PDP's more civilized politics. Twice beaten by PDP, thanks should go to Justice Ayo Salami for the 2011 ACN/APC chimera in Ekiti State.
>> Okey
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>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> My People:
>>> (Thumbing through a thesaurus...) Here it is...hubris!
>>> (Thumbing through a dictionary...) Here it is, confirming the meaning of "hubris."
>>> The fact of the matter is that his famous/famed support for President GEJ is not the matter at hand at all, but rather his unconstitutional brigandage (since winning the Governorship) in not permitting 19 Lawmakers to do their constitutional duty - which includes trying to impeach him -  in my state, and rather siding with 6 Lawmakers to "govern" the state, financially and otherwise,  illegally.   He has also "sacked" the Judiciary in the state, tearing black robes in the process.
>>> Sacking lawmakers was not ticked on the ballot by voters. 
>>> It is as simple as that....yes....as simple as that.
>>> And there you have it.
>>>
>>> Bolaji Aluko
>>> From Ekiti State
>>> Shaking his head
>>> ________________________________________________________________
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>>> http://ekitistate.gov.ng/2015/04/no-regrets-supporting-jonathan-fayose/
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>>> PRESS RELEASE:   No Regrets Supporting Jonathan – Fayose
>>>
>>>
>>> It has become imperative once again to address the media on the constitutional and political crises being foisted on our dear State, Ekiti by irritants of unbridled ambitions, who are not only devoid of spirit of sportsmanship but implacable even when all odds are against them and roundly rejected by the good people of the state. 
>>> It is no longer news that I defeated an incumbent governor in all the 16 Local Government Areas in the State and that for the first time in the history of Nigeria, attempts were made to use the courts to prevent someone who clearly won a governorship election from assuming office.
>>> Since June 21, 2014 that the All Progressives Congress (APC) suffered that humiliating defeat, the party has suffered defeats in the entire local government areas in Ekiti State in four other elections, the latest being the House of Assembly election in which APC won no single seat out of the 26 seats.
>>> Ekiti people have been persistent in their preference for me and my party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to correct the ills of the last four years and set the State on the path of greatness.
>>> Despite that Ekiti people have consistently spoken with their votes against the APC, Nigerians are witnesses to the litany of illegalities being woven by both the national leadership of the party and its Ekiti State chapter, all in an attempt to rob Ekiti people of the mandate freely given to me.
>>> Despite receiving bloodied nose in both the political and judicial arena in the hands of the Ekiti masses as represented by me, these desperate politicians are unrelenting in their shenanigans, the latest being the information at my disposal that even after May 29, the state would not know peace.
>>> I however trust Ekiti people to do what is right in securing peace in their land.
>>>
>>> I have been severally informed that I became the prime demolition target of the APC national leadership because of my overt and unalloyed support for President Goodluck Jonathan during the campaigns.
>>> Insiders in their party also told me that APC leaders were also yet to get over the fact that in the entire South-West, Ekiti was the only state they could not "rob" for General Mohammed Buhari (rtd). The eagle-eyed surveillance of Ekiti people ensured that.
>>> I wish to declare unequivocally that I remain loyal to President Jonathan even after May 29 as my support for his re-election and administration was not about bread-and-butter. I was convinced he was moving Nigeria in the right direction, despite all the noise. I have no regrets supporting him. If same situation presents itself again, I would do it all over.
>>> Let me state It clearly that if President Jonathan is deserted by all Nigerians today, I, Ayodele Fayose, would remain with him. I have chosen to be his last-man standing.
>>> If for this show of loyalty to Mr President and my party, APC and its leaders believe that the best way to pay me back is to make Ekiti ungovernable, the decision on appropriate reaction belongs to the people, whose mandate I keep in trust.
>>> It is ironic that those who said worse things about the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) when they were in opposing parties, are the ones milling around him today, using him as an electoral talisman and demonizing us for saying things of lesser magnitude during a campaign that was mainly characterized by hate-messages from both divides.
>>> I also want to put on record that if all PDP members decamp to APC today, I will remain the last-man standing for the party, even as I have no cause to denigrate the office of the president.
>>> I also promise APC a robust and engaging opposition both in the South-West, and nationally, with me playing a prominent role.
>>> Let me again state that I will continue to seek peace with my traducers and troublers of Ekiti.
>>>
>>> Since the Supreme Court judgement which held my 2006 impeachment as illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and of no effect, my preachings have been peace. This is to see if a hand of fellowship as urged by elders in the state and the nation at large would bring sanity to the opposition camp. It definitely has nothing to do with cowardice; as Ekiti is a land of the brave.
>>> In alerting the international community on what to expect from May 29 as regards the threat by the APC to make Ekiti ungovernable, I have decided to put on notice the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) on the imminent reign of impunity by APC as from May 29.
>>> Since Ekiti people are certain to resist the planned plundering of their land, Nigerians and the world at large should know who to hold responsible in the event of anarchy in Ekiti State in particular and the entire Yorubaland.
>>> God bless our land.
>>>
>>> Ayo Fayose,
>>> Governor, Ekiti State
>>> 23/4/15
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