Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared that he would not be intimidated even if the state was invaded by one million armed men of the Department of State Service (DSS) on the orders of President Mohammadu Buhari.
In a release issued yesterday and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said “government and the people of the state would never surrender governance of the state to political desperadoes whose fouryear reign destroyed the economy of the state.”
The governor, who stated that the DSS under President Buhari was operating beyond its constitutional mandate, added “government of Ekiti State may have to reconsider the usefulness of men of the DSS in the government house and other institutions of the state government.”
According to him, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government was “pursuing a clandestine agenda of truncating democracy in Ekiti State and other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled states like Rivers and Bayelsa.” He said: “If Buhari likes, let him relocate all DSS men in Nigeria with the entire ammunitions in their armoury to Ekiti, the will of Ekiti people can never be broken.
They will only try, and like they have always done, they will fail because dictatorship has never triumphed over the people. Even Buhari’s dictatorship between 1984 and 1985 ended one day and Nigerians will also outlive his present dictatorship.”
