Relocation claim: Falana goofed, says Fayose

As minister calls for peaceful transitionRotimi Ojomoyela

Ado-Ekiti

Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has said there was no truth in the claim by Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) that people are relocating from the state in large number because of his impending inauguration, saying only trouble makers are relocating.
Speaking in Ado-Ekiti yesterday through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, he described the claim by the lawyer as “baseless, irrational and very strange.”
Fayose was reacting to a publication contained in one of the national newspapers of yesterday in which Falana was reported to have said that people were leaving Ekiti State because they were afraid of what would happen to them after Fayose’s inauguration as governor.
Adelusi, who wondered how Falana came about such claims, noted that the overwhelming people of Ekiti State that voted in Fayose as their governor on June 21, were eagerly awaiting his inauguration as governor.
Also the Minister of State for Works, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye, has called on all stakeholders to desist from any action capable of disrupting the peaceful transition of power from the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi to the Governor-Elect, Ayodele Fayose, saying; “Ekiti is greater than the interests of any individual or group.”
The Minister, who said nothing can prevent Fayose from assuming office as Ekiti State Governor on October 16, 2014, added that; “Since Ekiti people have overwhelmingly expressed their preference for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Fayose, what should concern all right thinking stakeholders in Ekiti is the peaceful transition of power from the incumbent governor to the governor-elect.”
According to Adelusi, “Ekiti people, who elected Fayose and preferred him over and above Falana’s lackey, are waiting for his coming and for the four years he will lead the state. We know for sure that as our Lord lives that expectation will not be cut short.
“Ekiti is as peaceful as any other state, it is people like Falana who are beating the drum of war and propaganda and are having nightmares in which they are the only ones seeing their own Ekiti in trouble, while the reality is that Ekiti is moving into a golden era.
“Those causing trouble in the state in the last two weeks are leaders of the All Progressives Congress and their thugs, if trouble makers and people that the Bible calls ‘the troublers of Israel’ are relocating, then it is good riddance to bad rubbish. If those who have looted the state’s treasury and are afraid of probe and are relocating, they should know that the long arm of the law will catch up with them,” he said.