EKITI State and the people are currently in anxiety, as the Supreme Court will deliver judgment today in the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the June 21, 2014 Ekiti governorship election in the state.

While the state governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, in a statewide broadcast, asked residents to maintain the peace and go about their lawful duties, factional speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Dele Olugbemi, warned that nobody must do anything to plunge the state into chaos.

Fayose, who thanked the people for voting overwhelmingly for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in the just-concluded state assembly election, said their action had further proved that what he was enjoying was a genuine mandate and not a stolen one as being peddled.

He said he was of the belief that God would vindicate him at the end of the day, adding that he would triumph over whatever plans mounted to truncate his tenure by individuals or group of people.

On his part, the pro-Fayose speaker, Mr Olugbemi, raised the alarm that Plan “B” of 19 APC lawmakers against the governor was to engage in activities that would ultimately lead to declaration of state of emergency in the state, should they fail in their current impeachment bid.

He also accused some elements in Lagos and Osun states of luring him into joining the ranks of those promoting Fayose’s impeachment, using all means possible.

Though, he did not mention those involved, he disclosed that he had accepted to play along by holding nocturnal meetings with them in Lagos.

Olugbemi, who addressed newsmen in Ado Ekiti, on Monday, also alleged that the APC leaders tried to induce him financially to support moves to impeach Fayose.

He told newsmen that the move by the APC leader in the assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, to discontinue the case he filed challenging his impeachment as speaker, was still on, and alleged that his being wooed by the APC leaders prompted "the temporary move by Omirin to withdraw his case in court.

“They want me to turn my back against Fayose by thinking I would resign my current status as speaker, so that their man, Dr Adewale Omirin, could automatically step in as acting governor, immediately the governor is removed, and I will retain my position as speaker.

“But I, along with my other patriotic colleagues on the side of truth and justice, have vowed that we will rather sail or sink with Fayose, whose interest we are ready to defend with the last drop of our blood,” he said.

He warned that both Omirin and other pro-impeachment lawmakers, including their sponsors, would be in trouble should they go ahead with their planned impeachment or any other anti-democratic move that would not make him complete his four-year term.

He also insisted that Omirin was no longer speaker of the assembly, having been impeached and his impeachment challenged at a Lagos court, declaring that the status quo remained.