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March 4, 2015 by Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti 24 Comments

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has tasked Governor Ayodele Fayose to spare time for real governance, saying endless war drums against its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and frequent trips outside the state without economic benefits would not add any value to the people.

It also asked the governor to explain to the people how he had been spending the state federal allocations since his inauguration.

The State APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said in a statement on Wednesday that this became imperative in the face of the lull in governments activities to fulfill campaign promises to Ekiti people.

He said after five months in the saddle, the governor was yet to give any sign that he was prepared for governance.

After five months, the stories of debts profile still dominate the public space instead of unveiling his development programmes. What we have is frequent shuttling between the capitals of the Far East countries and a reversal of development efforts of the immediate past administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi, Olatubosun said.

He challenged the governor to tell Ekiti people that the state had been granted a moratorium of six months within which deductions from the Federation Account for payment of bond debt was suspended.

Describing the five months administration of Fayose as a reversal of fortunes, the APC spokesman faulted the government for unemployment caused by cancellation of empowerment schemes introduced by Fayemis administration.

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Some members of the All Progressives Congress have lambasted the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, for reportedly mocking the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (Retd), and questioning his mental health.

The first lady had told supporters at the campaign rally in Calabar, Cross River, to vote for my husband, Jonathan. Do not vote for Buhari. He is an old man. People, when they become old, may not reason well and their brain may even be dead.

Online media had reported that she also told the group to stone the APC supporters if they told them to vote the Buhari.

Reacting to the development, a former presidential candidate in the 2011 election and publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, said it was unfortunate that those in President Jonathans camp still had not stopped inciting Nigerians to violence. He wondered why the PDP had continued to make remarks that were capable of creating more tension in the polity.

Momodu added, via Twitter, that a key supporter of the President admitted that some PDP members were doing more damage to his re-election bid than good.

I just spoke to a very influential supporter of Jonathan who expressed sadness that the hawks were doing so much damage to his campaign, he tweeted.

The leaders and presidential candidates of the PDP and APC had earlier signed a peace accord as part of their efforts to ensure peaceful elections in the country.

Also, shortly after President Jonathan and Buhari had signed the pact, the governorship candidates of their respective political parties in various states had to follow their examples.

But the recent statement credited to the First Lady may have ignited the same ethnic tensions that the peace accord was expected to tackle in the first place. Some commentators have already started viewing her comment as anti-north.

An ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Kaduna State governorship candidate, Nasir el-Rufai, was one of those who interpreted the statement as being targeted at northerners.

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The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has alleged thatGovernor Ayodele Fayose is planning to sack workers after the forthcoming general elections.

The party alsoaccused the governor of undue harassment of teachers perceived not to be friendly with his government, describing it as not a mark of dispassionate leadership.

In a statement on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti, the State Publicity Secretary, Tauwo Olatubosun, alleged that the governor had embarked on selective transfersof some teachers from towns to the remote communities across the state.

We are worried that shortly after he was sworn in, the governor started marking down all the teachers he perceived as not supporting him for punishment.

What we have now is taking authority to transfer teachers from the Teaching Service Commission and place it in the hands of his Special Assistant on Internal Security, who goes around schools in the state, pointing to those to be transferred to rural areas and telling them the reasons for that punishment, Olatubosun said.

But Fayoses Special Assistant on Information, Lanre Ogunsuyi, in an interview with our correspondent, said the allegation was unfounded.

He said, The APC, having tried unsuccessfully to give us a difficult beginning, is now embarking on another round of propaganda. But we are determined and focused. We are not going to sack workers because they are the people that voted for us.

As for posting of teachers, it is a routine thing. We are aware that education was at the lowest ebb in the last administration, even after states having challenges of Boko Haram.

The reorganisation of the primary and secondary has been left in the hands of professionals. We have allowed the Head of Service, who is a professional, to have a free hand. So, whoever is posted knows it is within the ambit of his employment letter and terms of condition.

The APC spokesmansaid it was callous to plan the retrenchment of workers after refusing to pay their two months salaries.

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The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has threatened a legal action against the spokesman for the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-kayode, for what he termed defamation of his person.

Fani-kayode had, in a recent press statement made available to various media house, alleged that Osinbajo had taking a secret oath with a national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, to relinquish power as the vice president to Tinubu after six months in office, in the event that the APC won the presidential election.

Fani-kayode had, in the statement titled APC is selling a dummy to the whole world; Tinubu is the real candidate, reportedly described Osinbajo as a stooge in the hands of Tinubu.

But Osinbajo, in a pre-litigation letter to Fani-kayode on Tuesday, asked him to within seven days retract the said defamatory statement or be prepared for litigation.

In the letter written on his behalf by his lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), the senior advocate also asked Fani-Kayode to tender a public apology to him which should be aired on four television stations and published in four national dailies in addition to a payment of N2bn for the damages already done against his person.

Falana said Fani-kayodes statement was not only false but was specifically targeted at impugning Osinbajos character and lower him in the estimation of right thinking members of the public.

He described Fani-Kayodes statement as vicious, wicked and reckless, adding that the claims were inconsistent with Osinbajos faith, role and ethics as a pastor, a professor of Law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

Falana, while saying that Fani-kayodes statement suggested that Osinbajo was complicit in a fraud against the Nigerian people, maintained that such statement negated Osinbajos publicly acclaimed and validated record of competence, honesty and integrity.

He therefore asked Fani-Kayode to retract the statement with public apology or we shall proceed with our clients instruction to seek appropriate legal remedies for your publication and dissemination of defamatory statements.

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