Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday disagreed over the violence in the state.
While the governor blamed the Governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, for the crisis, the PDP accused Fayemi of not showing enough concern over the death of a former state Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Omolafe Aderiye.
Fayemi who asked Nigerians to hold Fayose liable for the current crisis in the state, said the state had been relatively peaceful until the attack on judges and disruption of court proceedings.
The governor stated this while assessing the level of damage done by hoodlums who burned down the state and Ado Local Government secretariats of the All Progressives Congress, the residence and five vehicles belonging to the former Chairman of the Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria, Mr Joseph Olambiwonu, alias Mentilo, among several others
According to a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, Fayemi lamented that some people did not care about returning the state to its dark old days in their desperate bid to actualise their ambitions.
He said, “Don’t let us forget where this originally came from. It is not accidental that we have criminal elements going round and burning properties without prompting. This is not unconnected to what happened to the judiciary, the assault on the judiciary, the attack on the judges and the unfortunate death of Mr Omolafe Aderiye, the former Chairman of NURTW.
“All of these are still being investigated but there was one cause: Ayo Fayose should be solely and primarily held responsible for its happening in the state. Mr. Ayo Fayose can deny as much as he likes; I have it on incontrovertible authority. I knew what happened in the court.”
But the PDP in a statement issued on Saturday by its Ekiti State Publicity Secretary, Kola Oluwawole, asked why what happened in the State High Court premises could be more important to Fayemi than the murder of an Ekiti son.
“He did not even mention his name. He just said someone was killed.
“So, in the wicked mind of Fayemi, Omolafe Aderiye, a prominent son of Ado-Ekiti, who led the NURTW for years was just someone?
“Instead of showing concern for the soul already lost, Fayemi’s concern was ‘court cases’ with which he intends to remain in power despite that Ekiti people rejected him totally on June 21, 2014.
“This is the height of wickedness,” he said.
Meanwhile, Fayemi on Friday paid a condolence visit to the family of Aderiye who was killed on Thursday by unknown gunmen in Ado Ekiti.
