For the first time since coming to power as Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose was said to have rejected calls made by president Obasanjo for him to resign his position as Governor of Ekiti State telling the president that he will ride the crisis till the very end and also telling him that "he Obasanjo) alone did not make him governor".
Saharareporters reliably gathered that the embattled governor spoke to President Obasanjo this afternoon to rescind an earlier agreement with the president to resign today as widely reported in the newspaper. The governor was said to have told the president that he was confident that God will intervene in his favor therefore rejecting his earlier call on him to resign and hand over to the deputy Governor, Mrs. Abiodun Olujimi.
The 24 legislators who served an "impeachment Notice" on the governor are still holed up somewhere in the Southwest considering the next option since an expected resignation announcement from Fayose did not materialize today. The group is said to still be determined to carry out the impeachment of the governor as planned.
Further today, the governor took extra-ordinary legal steps to challenge the "impeachment process", he went to the Ekiti State High Court Division to sue the State Legislators. In a suit filed and now before one Justice Koweh, Governor Fayose has sought the help of the High Court in getting perpetual injunctions restraining members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly from impeaching him and his deputy.
A group of 10 lawyers from the opposition camp have been assembled to storm the High Court tomorrow at 10 AM to remind the judge that the judiciary is precluded from interferring in impeachment proceedings says one of the lawyers.
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