It was a shocking spectacle last evening as Governor Ayodele Fayose allegedly caused a stir in Ado-Ekiti when he personally drove a white Hilux van into the Oja Oba Market through Okesa chasing off market women selling by roadsides and carting away their wares.
The most shocking of the drama was in front of Ewi Palace where Fayose jumped out of the vehicle and starting personally impounding the wares displayed by the traders.
One of the vehicles involved in the raid developed a fault and Fayose supervised other men who fastened the vehicle to another that drove the faulty vehicle out of the place.
It was wailing and curses as the governor said he had no regret clearing the women out of the streets.
It was wailing and curses as the governor said he had no regret clearing the women out of the streets.
It was gathered that the governor was in possession of information that market women have been rooting for Buhari and had on some occasions expressed worry to the market women leaders not to abandon him. Instead of the women backing down, it is more support everyday for Buhari and Fayose vowed to deal with them.
The okada riders had had their own bitter tale to tell on the day President Jonathan campaigned in Ado-Ekiti. Fayose had banked on the okada riders’ support to chalk up the crowd at the rally. But okada riders refused to show up over Fayose’s unfavorable policy on okada operations in the state. Of late, okada riders have been very hostile to the governor as they no longer follow him any where he goes. And so as Jonathan departed the stadium enroute Akure to Abuja, okada riders in their hundreds started chanting “Sai Buhari” to the long convoy of the President.
In the evening, Fayose sent thugs against okada riders at Okeyinmi roundabout where they shouted Sai Buhari and sent them packing. Several of them were wounded while trying to escape.
But okada riders’ behaviour has put Fayose in trouble in the presidency as Jonathan had discovered that the governor kept N100m provided for the rally mobilization to himself. It was learnt that some leaders told the party headquarters in Abuja that Fayose did not give anybody any money sent from Abuja, instead the governor mandated PDP members to contribute money for the rally.
Some members refused to contribute money for mobilisation, leaving the governor with a choice of forcing civil servants and teachers to compulsorily attend the rally. The permanent secretary that stood in Fayose’s way was summarily dismissed through radio announcement.
The governor only yesterday commissioned some thugs to be removing Buhari’s posters in Ado-Ekiti. But this evening, APC responded by repasting Buhari’s posters across the state.
The presidential election fever is here and so both PDP and Fayose are every minute catching cold.
The Monitors.The presidential election fever is here and so both PDP and Fayose are every minute catching cold.