A crowd of supporters of the Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose were seen on the streets protesting the alleged plan of state House of Assembly to remove the governor. The crowd of protesters, who are members of a group called Positive Minds Club for Teachers, were at Fajuyi Park in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, with placards bearing various inscriptions criticising the Assembly. They moved from the popular Fajuyi Park to Ijigbo roundabout where they were addressed by two of their leaders.

Some of the placards which they carried had on them inscriptions such as: “No to impeachment,” “We want peace in Ekiti,” “Return the N100m bribe to your leader,” “No going back on June 21 election result” and Tinubu stay away from Ekiti,” among others.

However, the group’s President, Mr. Ojo Patrick, and Treasurer, Mr. Bello Akande, made it known that they are ready to mobilize the people of the state to move against any plan to remove the governor as there are underground plans to do so.

Patrick said, “It is a peaceful protest and the police are here to ensure that the protest is not hijacked. We are going to maintain peace throughout the protest.“We just want to show to all Ekiti people that we stand by the result of the last governorship election and our mandate.

 “If the members of the House of Assembly want us to come and dialogue with them, we are ready. We learnt that they went for a meeting in Lagos State with Tinubu and each of the lawmakers collected N50m while the Speaker got N100m to impeach the governor and to make sure that Ekiti State is made ungovernable for Fayose.”

Patrick, however appealed to the lawmakers “in the interest of all Ekiti people to stay clear of any move to impeach the governor.”

Meanwhile, the state House of Assembly had a press meeting on Thursday making it known that they did not collected money to remove the governor.

The Majority Leader of the Assembly, Mr. Churchill Adedipe, said the meeting they held in Lagos was to discuss the forthcoming All Progressive Congress presidential primary.

It would be recalled that just recently, the Ekiti State Government released the images demonstrating the opulence in which former Governor Kayode Fayemi and his family lived while he was the Ekiti governor, a state in debt and which had difficulty paying its workers their salaries.