Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Information and Social
Media, Mr Lere Olayinka has described claims by Speaker of the Ekiti
State House of Assembly, Hon Adewale Omirin that his filling station, T5
Petrol Station was sealed up for political reasons as the height of
mischief and misrepresentation of facts.
Olayinka, in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti ,
said; "as against the falsehood being spread by the Speaker and his
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Speaker's Petrol
Station, alongside three others were sealed up for contravening
environmental laws."
The governor's aide listed the four filling stations affected by the
government action to include; INIS Integrated Services located along
Iworoko Road, Ado-Ekiti; belonging Hon Churchill Adedipe, NIPCO Petrol
Station (Morolu Global Services), Isato-Oke in Ado-Ekiti (belonging to
Mr Oloko), T5 Petrol Station, Ajilosun in Ado-Ekiti (owned by Dr Adewale
Omirin) and PHENROSE Limited, Ajilosun in Ado-Ekiti (owned by Mr
Gilbert Igweka).
Olayinka, who advised the Speaker to thread softly so as to prevent
himself from being pushed into perdition, added that; "Code 2 (b) of the
Code of Conduct Act prohibits public office holders like the Speaker
from participating in management or running of any private business,
profession or trade.
"Therefore, those making noise in the media that Dr Omirin owns a
filling station are only trying to throw him inside the web of the Code
of Conduct Tribunal, and the noisemakers won't be available to help him
out of the mess they would have put him."
Speaking further; Olayinka said; for clarity sake; "Four filling
stations were sealed-up and one of them belong to an Ibo man. Are they
also saying that the Ibo man is a politician and being coerced by the
governor?
"Are they also saying that Mr Oloko, the owner of NIPCO Petrol Station
(Morolu Global Services) is a member of the APC and a serving member of
the Ekiti State House of Assembly?"
He urged leaders of the APC, especially the immediate past governor, Dr
Kayode Fayemi and his godfather, Senator Bola Tinubu to accept their
fate and let peace reign in Ekiti State.
He said as a public office holder, "the Speaker does not have legal
rights to own private business, and one wonders how someone prohibited
by law to own private business while in office can be said to be the owner of a
filling station that is under construction."
on Thursday
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