LG crisis: Bankole hates Ekiti, CNPP alleges •NANS, group give Reps 48-hr ultimatum

LG crisis: Bankole hates Ekiti, CNPP alleges •NANS, group give Reps 48-hr ultimatum

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Written by Stephen Gbadamosi, Ado-Ekti Thursday, 04 November 2010

FollowingTuesday’s resolution of the House of Representatives to stop allocations to Ekiti, Edo and Ondo states, the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), Ekiti State chapter, has accused the Speaker of the House, Honourable Dimeji Bankole, of harbouring “chronic hatred” against Ekiti and its people.
This is just as youths in the state said they were poised to battle the lower chamber of the federal legislature, handing down a 48-hour ultimatum within which the decision should be reversed.
Addressing a joint press conference in the state capital, Ado-Ekiti, on Wednesday, the coordinator of Integrity Youth Movement, Dr. Tayo Komolafe; the national secretary, Student Advocate for Better Nigeria, Taiwo Okunuga; the chairman, National Association of Nigerian Students Joint Campus Committee (NANS/ JCC), Ondo/Ekiti, Adeolu Oyebode; and the president of University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD) Students Union Government (SUG), Kehinde Okunnuga, the youth also threatened to mobilse themselves to Abuja.
They said if the House of Representatives failed to reverse the decision at the expiration of the ultimatum, the entire students in the state would relocate to Abuja starting from November 8.
“We are giving the House of Representatives 48 hours to reverse the decision. If it fails to do so, we will mobilise all the youth of Ekiti to Abuja. The position of the speaker during the fight to reclaim Dr. Fayemi’s mandate was recorded. When he came to Ekiti, he was the one that campaigned for soldiers to be deployed in the state before the late President Umaru Yar’Adua stopped the idea.
“Ekiti has suffered enough damage and neglect. If the allocations of the state are withheld, who would suffer? Is it the ousted chairmen or the ordinary masses of the state?
“Everybody knows what is going on in Ogun State; but the House of Representatives, because of Bankole, has not done anything about it. We have been cheated severally in the past and now that we have a legitimate government in place, they want to scuttle its efforts,” the youth said.
The CNPP, in a statement signed by its state chairman, Prince Tunji Ogunlola, accused the speaker of playing partisan politics with the destiny of Ekiti State, adding that he had the penchant for supporting anti-Ekiti policies.