Fayose: as usual, he’s at it again

Fayose: as usual, he’s at it again

  Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose is at again, but this time in unusual form, you would want to guess what I’m about to talk about right?

Well he chose to dress down and was dressed down. He was dressed in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt when he appeared at the house of assembly at Ekiti state to present the Appropriation Bill on December 8.

    “The world watched in disbelief as Fayose stormed the House of Assembly in casual dress,” said a statement by the publicity secretary of the All progressives congress (APC), Taiwo Olatunbosu. He described the governor’s dressing as “uncultured”, adding that it “defied decorum.”

   In response , the house committee chairman on information, Gboyega Aribisogan, reportedly wondered: “And what has what Governor Fayose wears got to do with Governance?” His defense of Fayose was perhaps predictable, come to think of it birds of the same feather flock together isn’t it?. They are both members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which is in power in the state. The defender also wondered why the opposition “turned themselves into Governor Fayose’s advisers on mode of dressing and public presentation.”

   So, Fayose’s informal dressing was considered appropriate for a formal ceremony by those who don’t understand the idea of “dressing properly for the occasion”.

   The APC’s statement continued: “More shocks came when the Governor grabbed the gavel and started conducting a mock sitting. The worst was the quality of English by the Governor who said: ‘those who doesn’t support the quick passage of the budget you should say ‘Aye’ or “Nay’, to which both gallery and members hooted ‘Aye’.”

   Fayose’s dramatic use of a gavel to symbolically “pass” the budget into law after presenting the proposal to the law makers amounted to a “breach of protocol,” the party said. The Governor’s action was described as a “flagrant disregard of the rule of law and constituted authority”. According to the APC, it “violates law and order and abuses power”.

   This account sounded exaggerated. But Aribisogan’s reaction appeared to corroborate it. Speaking on behalf of the 26-member House of Assembly controlled by the PDP, he told journalists in Ado-Ekiti that the law maker’s owed their positions to Fayose. He was as well quoted saying: “is it our fault that the APC does not have a single member in the house of assembly? … The reality that those in the APC must face is that if they are waiting for us to confront Governor Fayose on issues of Governance, they will wait till eternity.”

   This hero worship must explain not only Fayose’s superiority complex, but also the legislators’ inferiority complex. The picture shows a little tin god and men of straw.