Again, Fayose extends olive branch to Ekiti APC lawmakers

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State has again, extended an olive branch to All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the state House of Assembly following the impeachment crisis in the House.

Governor Ayo Fayose, on Saturday, said he was ready for dialogue with the 19 APC lawmakers, making this the second time in one week he would extend a hand of friendship to the APC lawmakers for the sake of peace and well-being of Ekiti State and its people.

Governor Fayose spoke at a special prayer session organised for him by Muslims in the state at the Ansar ud-Deen Central Mosque in Ado Ekiti to celebrate his recent electoral victories and legal victory at the Supreme Court.

The governor also clarified that he was not opposed to whatever political solution that could end the imbroglio as long as the warring APC lawmakers also embraced such idea, and insisted that he was waving the olive branch in the overall interest of Ekiti people as well as restoration of peace.

He explained that several calls and appeals for amicable solution to the lingering crisis by eminent leaders, religious leaders as well as traditional rulers, informed his latest stance, just as he apologised to anyone that he may have offended one way or the other in the course of carrying out his duties as governor to forgive him of any wrong doing and forget the past.

He regretted that activities of the 19 APC lawmakers had taken toll on legitimate businesses of innocent people of the state, with one life lost in the process.

Earlier before leading the prayers for the governor, the State Missioner of the Ansar ud-Deen Movement, Alhaji Liadi Adebayo, called on both Fayose and the APC lawmakers to bury their hatchets.

He canvassed for peaceful co-existence of entire people of Ekiti State, irrespective of their political differences.

The Cleric urged residents to live together in harmony as politics was not supposed to be a do or die affair.