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The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State said in a statement on Monday that Governor Ayodele Fayose breached the Constitution by presenting his 2015 budget to only seven of the 26-member state House of Assembly.

The opposition party also put both the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission on notice, asking the anti-graft agencies to monitor the alleged illegal financial transactions going on in Ekiti.

The APC, in the statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, counselled Fayose to always follow legal steps in the governance and financial management of the state.

It recalled that the seven members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state Assembly had earlier sat to illegally confirm commissioner-nominees and also approved the dissolution and reconstitution of the local governments, among others.

Olatunbosun said, The Monday illegal sitting with a full house of thugs was a new dimension to the constitutional breaches and lawlessness by the Executive.

We never knew that Ekiti people could be brought to this low record in decency and respect for the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by herding thugs to the hallowed chamber of the House of Assembly to join seven members to present state budget.

The standard practice is for the governor to present the state budget to members in full session while the public sit at the gallery to watch proceedings. But in this instance, thugs intermingled with the lawmakers in a plenary in such a way that you cannot differentiate a lawmaker from a thug.

The APC called the attention of Nigerians and lovers of democracy around the world to the reign of impunity in Ekiti State and urged all organs and agencies of government responsible for budget processing not to be involved in any financial transactions based on the illegal budget.

But in a reaction, Fayose also counselled the APC to bring back its 19 runaway lawmakers to the state, saying, no individual, group or political party can hold the state to ransom.

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