Indications have emerged that the trio of Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Lagos based lawyer; Mr Femi Falana (SAN) and former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant who is now in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Yinka Akerele are now working hand-in-hand towardsfoisting another political instability on Ekiti State by encouraging President Mohammadu Buhari to declare a state of emrgency in the State.
The trio of Ojudu, Falana and Akerele were the arrowheads of the 2006 impeachment of Governor Ayodele Fayose that was later declared illegal by the Supreme Court. The impeachment led to the declaration of a state of emergency in the State.
Sources said Ojudu confided in some of his associates last week that it will be difficult for the APC to return to power in the State in 2018 with Fayose still in office and that everything must be done to get the governor out before the end of 2017, even if it will require foisting anarchy on the State.
Ojudu was said to have been banking on getting the House of Assembly to impeach Governor Fayose innitially but he met brickwall each time he made overture to any of the 26 members of the House of Assembly.
“The last straw that broke the camel’s back was what Hon Wale Ayeni did when Ojudu called him few weeks ago. Wale Ayeni put Ojudu on speakerphone for Governor Fayose to listen to all that he said and went further to release his call logs, showing Ojudu’s calls to the public. That jolted Ojudu so much that he concluded that it will be difficult to get Fayose removed through the House of Assembly, hence the emergency option,” a source said.
One of the sources said a retired army colonel from a State in the North West has been suggested to be appointed as Sole Administrator for Ekiti State in the event that the state of emergency option scaled through.
Ojudu, who is said to be interested in the State governorship positionallegedly boasted that his position as the Special Adiviser on Political Matters to the President will be used to get the president to buy into the “state of emergency option.”
Another of the sources disclosed that another protest will be organised by the APC in the next few weeks in which not less than five people will be killed.
Those to carry out the attack on the protesters are said to have already been arranged and they were programmed to apear as working for Governor Fayose to distrupt the protest.
“The game plan was that the last Friday protest led by Mrs Motunde Fajuyi will be distrupted by Fayose’s supporters so that there will be choas. But it appeared the governor read their game very well and prevailed on his supporters to ignore the protest.
“Because of the failure of that protest to achieve its purpose, another one is now being planned. This time around, the attack will be carried out by their own people thinking that the moment people are killed, there will be breakdown of law and order and that will be an excuse to declare a state of emergency in the State.
“However, one major contraint that they have now is the National Assembly which must ratify the state of emergency before it can take full effect. Another constraint is who will be governor among the gladiators in the APC, especially Ojudu and Falana.
“Also, how to justify the emergency declaration is still a major issue because some of the close confidants of President Buhari are of the opinion that if state of emergency was not declared in Benue State where over 500 Agatus were killed by Fulani herdsmen, Niger Delta States where oil installations are being bombed and governors of the North Easten States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe were not removed when state of emergency was imposed on the States, there may be no justification for imposition of state emergency on Ekiti State even if five people are killed during protest.
“Falana is already playing the Ekiti South Agenda card while Ojudu is of the opinion that Ado-Ekiti with the largest voting population must get the governorship.
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