Aggrieved lawmakers settled –Fayose. It’s not true -Omirin

The crisis between Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and the 19 APC lawmakers in the state’s House of Assembly seems far from over, as both parties have accused each other of telling lies over the payment of the lawmakers’ salaries.

While the lawmakers insist that they have not been paid, the state government described as falsehood and dishonesty, their claim that they have not been paid their entitlements.

But the APC legislators in a statement by Speaker Adewale Omirin’s Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, said “Let us even agree without conceding that we were paid our lawful entitlements, what favour does the governor do to us by that after illegally cutting short our tenure by seven months and putting us in harrowing inconveniences in addition to his brazen rape on the Constitution of Nigeria?

“Must payment of our legal entitlements prevent us from defending the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which we swore to protect?

However, the State Government in a statement issued on Sunday by the Commissioner for Finance, Chief Toyin Ojo, claimed that the lawmakers duly acknowledged receipt of cheques for their payments last week Wednesday through his office.

The government said it was necessary to clarify the matter because the lawmakers claimed Fayose had placed an embargo on their bank accounts and did not pay them their entitlements.

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