The Ekiti state chapter of the All Progressives Congress has profiled majority of the new lawmakers in the state House of Assembly as Touts and school dropouts.
The party, in a statement issued by Taiwo Olatubosun, the party's state secretary, faulted the quality of the newly inaugurated legislators on the grounds that, they did not represent the best interest of the people.
"Only a few of them are worthy of the exalted position of legislators. We all saw the intrigues that characterised the primaries that returned the new members. It was ballot snatching and violence on a massive scale during the April 11 Assembly poll," the statement read.
According to Punch, he alleged that the House of Assembly was made up of selected cronies of Governor Ayodele Fayose, whom he compensated as honourable members.
He said: "Because of their inadequacies, they will legitimise and encourage illegality and impunity because they won't understand the nitty-gritty of lawmaking process and independence of mind required in making laws that benefit the larger society outside the narrow interest of the governor."
"They should also be made to know that there is nothing they say now that would change the togas of failure which has been attached to their name permanently," he added.
Governor Fayose, who was embroiled in a tussle with the previous House of Assembly members said he was able to survive the political crisis that rocked the state in the last few months by divine intervention.
He said this on Sunday, June 7, at the Deeper Life Campground, Ado Ekiti, during a thanksgiving service to mark his victory and the inauguration of the new members of the assembly.
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