Breaking news: APC lawmakers serve Fayose Impeachment Notice

The Speaker of theEkiti State House of Assembly Dr Adewale Omirin, has forwarded a notice of gross misconduct to Governor Ayo Fayose and his deputy, Dr. Olusola Eleka.
Source within the APC said the Notice was served on him during the week.

But Fayose has advised the APC lawmakers to stop acting like “jesters”, describing the purported impeachment notice as the “joke of the century.”

According to him, the script being acted by the APC is a failed one because no one, no matter how highly placed, will be allowed to test the will of the Ekiti people.
This is as the factional Speaker of the Assembly, Mr. Dele Olugbemi, dismissed the purported notice of impeachment and accused Omirin of forgery, impersonation and attempt to cause breach of public peace.
In the letter by the 19 lawmakers titled,

“Re: Notice of Allegations of Gross Misconduct,” sent to Fayose, the APC lawmakers listed eight impeachable offences against the governor.
These offences bordered on impunity, brigandage, stalking and other constitutional breaches.
These included alleged invasion of the House of Assembly with thugs and miscreants, instigating an unconstitutional takeover of the House by seven legislators to sit in contravention of Section 96(2) of the 1999 Constitution, and prevention of the 19 APC legislators from performing their duties with the use of security agents and armed thugs.
Other allegations listed in the notice are: sponsoring an unlawful impeachment process in the house, spending Ekiti State funds without the requisite constitutional approval in contravention of the constitution and running the government without legally constituted Executive Council in contravention of Section 192(2) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

They also accused the governor of operating an illegal 2014 budget as well as sponsoring and instigating illegal sitting of the House in contravention of Section 96(1) of the Constitution.
It could, however, not be confirmed when and how the notice was served on the governor.

“I don’t want to talk about it now. But he (the governor) has been served,” Omirin said when asked how the notice was served on the governor.
“Just know we have served him. That is the most important thing.”

Fayose was given seven days to respond to the allegations.
Reacting to the allegations, the governor in a statement issued on Saturday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said

“The script being acted by the APC is a failed one because no one, no matter how highly placed will be allowed to test the will of Ekiti people.
“The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly is Dele Olugbemi and not Dr. Adewale Omirin.
“Omirin is already in court, challenging his impeachment and common sense dictates that when you are challenging an action already taken in court, you have accepted the consequences of such action pending the determination of the suit you filed.”
In petitions to the State Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, and Director of the Department of State Service, Samuel Tamuno, the factional leader, Olugbemi, asked them to prosecute Omirin, for forgery, impersonation and attempt to cause breach of public peace.
Olugbemi described the notice of impeachment as a ploy by the APC to distract the state government.