No Work,Schools Shut Down In Ekiti State As Fayose Calls On Okada Riders & Drivers To Help Defend His Mandate...

Pupils in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital, were sent back home Monday morning and civil servants stayed away from the State Secretariat for fear of being caught in a potential outbreak of violence following the call by Governor Ayodele Fayose to Okada riders and drivers to rise up and help him protect his mandate.
Nineteen lawmakers of the All Progressives

Congress have initiated impeachment proceedings
against him and have requested the state chief
judge to raise a panel to probe the governor.
A resident of the city, who asked not to be named
for fear of his safety, told PremiumTimes that
although vehicular movements were not restricted
in Ado-Ekiti, there were minimal commercial
activities in the town as a large group of Mr
Fayose’s supporters from three transport unions
in the states gathered at the House of Assembly
Complex in anticipation that the APC lawmakers
would attempt to meet there.
“I took my children to school this morning and I
was told to take them back home. In fact, I saw
about six teachers at the gate of a public school
close to my children’s school sending pupils home,”
he said.
“Most of the ministries are very close to the House
of Assembly Complex; most of the civil servants
did not come to work because of the tension. I’ve
called several civil servants working there and
they said there was no life along the secretariat
road. They told me that they fear that violence
might occur and that it is better they stay at
home,” he added.
The transporters were responding to calls by Mr
Fayose on the state-owned television station, Ekiti
State Television for Okada riders and drivers to
mobilise and defend the mandate they gave the
governor.
“My mandate is your mandate and you must
defend it,” said Mr Fayose in a live broadcast on
Ekiti State Television on Sunday.
Soon after the governor’s appeal, the state
television intermittently run paid advert by the
Okada Riders Association, the National Union of
Road Transport workers (NUTRW) and the Road
Transport Workers Association of Nigeria (RTWAN)
calling on their members to gather at the House of
Assembly and help protect the governor’s mandate
with “the last drop of their blood”.
Meanwhile, Lere Olayinka, Media aide to Mr
Fayose, has denied that the governor is instigating
public disturbances and inciting people to attack
the APC lawmakers. In an email to Premium
Times, he said claims suggesting so are false.