The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal has denied the allegation by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State that the presidency is planning to remove him from office. “Why would I or the presidency bother about impeaching Fayose? Did we vote for him? Why should we bother ourselves? I was not one of those who voted for him in Ekiti State. Let the people decide what to do with him.”

Be that as it may, Governor Fayose made several allegations against the presidency recently. Hear him: “A few days ago, we had it on good authority that, there was a meeting with some politicians from Ekiti State, including an Ekiti-born Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and self-professed rights activist, with the agenda, solely, on how to bring down my administration as the governor of the state.”

“Certain top functionaries of Ekiti State Government and some important members of the PDP in Ekiti State, and some associates of mine, have been pencilled down for arrest and indefinite detention by the EFCC under the guise of investigating funds spent by the PDP on governorship election in the state and the presidential election. The game plan is to detained indefinitely those to be arrested, forced to make statements incriminating me and, at the same time, feed the public with orchestrated, fake reports.”

“The plot is to arrest and detain, indefinitely, my Chief of Staff, Chief Dipo Anisulowo and four members of the state House of Assembly for treason. To achieve this plot against the government and people of Ekiti State, we have been informed that some of their trusted allies in the EFCC have been mobilised to move to Ekiti any moment from now.”