Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has said the impeachment crisis ravaging the state has been blown out of proportion.
The governor, who spoke at the State Delegate Congress of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Ado-Ekiti, on Thursday, said he deals with reality and does not play his own brand of politics on the pages of newspapers.
New executives to pilot the affairs of the state council of NLC will be elected at the congress.
Fayose was responding to a comment made by a senior labour official, Babatunde Liadi, representing the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, who said the crisis rocking the state is not as serious as the world is being made to believe.
The governor said the opposition in the state must be appealed to for him to “take care of the people who voted him into office.”
He, however, regretted the shortfall in the allocation to the state which has made payment of workers’ salaries a huge challenge, explaining that monthly allocation now stands at N2 billion, while the monthly wage bill is N2.6 billion.
The governor vowed to summon a stakeholders’ meeting to put heads together on how best to manage the situation, adding that workers’ welfare must be accorded an utmost priority.
He said: “Those of you who traveled from afar off to Ekiti today can attest to the fact that Ekiti crisis was being overblown.
“I want to thank the NLC President for even raising the observation. We are on ground alongside these workers here in Ekiti. We are not doing our own politics on the pages of newspapers because I deal with reality.
“The Ekiti workers played prominent role in my coming back to government after eight years, they said I was impeached. Even the Supreme Court in his judgment last week said they were only lying that I was never impeached. What victory could be more than this?
“I am not in Ekiti to persecute anybody. I believed I was brought back to do good to all manners of men and that was why I have been waving the olive branch to the lawmakers and the opposition.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Continue to exchange olive branch to them, d cry of d Ekiti peopl dat voted u in ll definitely touch d opposition one day to re think.we ll pray 4 u n even really u hav d interest of Ekiti peopl at hrt God ll deliver u frm their hands k
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