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The 19 lawmakers from All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has been asked by the party in the state to return and commence sitting, saying that the “impunity” has come to an end with Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s victory.
In s statement issued on Tuesday, the party said: “Buhari’s victory marks the beginning of sanity in the polity wracked by lawlessness, corruption and impunity. All democratic institutions will operate unfettered within the ambit of the law.
“On this note, we urge our 19 members in the House of Assembly to return to work immediately and take control of the affairs because a new era of law and order has returned,” the Ekiti APC said on Tuesday in a statement by its publicity secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun.
The party also told the residents of the state to defy the curfew declared by Governor Ayo Fayose.
The APC described the curfew by Governor Fayose as “sheer wickedness used as a mean to deter the people from celebrating while he commended its members and supporters for recording remarkable votes despite provocations, inducements, harassments and infractions on their rights by the state government.
“Our party has asked its members to defy order barring them from celebrating their party’s victory because it is their legal right. We are not fighting; we are celebrating.
“Fayose should remember that he urged Ekiti people to defy Governor Kayode Fayemi’s curfew order when there was apparent threat to peace in the state. This time, there is no threat to peace and so there is no authority that can bar Ekiti people from celebrating our liberty and this victory. End of impunity has come.
“It is not only victory for Ekiti people, but victory for Nigerians for a successful transition from one civilian administration to another.
“Nigerians from all walks of life are celebrating this special moment, Ekiti cannot be an exception. We are not mourning but celebrating. It is sheer wickedness on the part of Governor Fayose to want to prevent this celebration.”