Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has been suspended by the state executive committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party in a statement on Friday said Fayemi was suspended due to “his numerous anti-party activities, especially his role in the recently concluded governorship election in Edo State which is contrary to the provisions of Article 21 (A) (ii) of the APC Constitution.”
Members of the state executive committee which suspended Fayemi include Tony Adeniyi, Babafemi Ojudu, Dayo Adeyeye, Bimbo Daramola, Robinson Ajiboye, Oye Ojo, Adewale Omirin and Femi Adeleye.
Ojudu had been suspended indefinitely alongside 10 others by another faction of the party.
However, the state executive committee said the decision to suspend Fayemi was made in a meeting held on September 23.
The party claimed that five days before the Edo election Fayemi hosted PDP chieftain Femi Fani-Kayode at the government house in Ado-Ekiti and planned a coup against Edo APC.
“That Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the Executive Governor of Ekiti State is hereby suspended from the Party in view of his numerous anti-party activities especially his role in the recent concluded governorship election in Edo State which is contrary to the provisions of Article 21 (A) (ii) of the APC Constitution,” they said.
“For five days prior to the Edo elections, Gov Fayemi hosted PDP big wig Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode in the government house in Ado Ekiti in the run-up to the Edo elections. It was here they perfected the coup against our party in Edo State. This is the same Fani-Kayode who daily abuses President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the APC as a party as well a vital section of our country. We have evidence of that meeting.”
Another allegation levelled against Fayemi by the party was that he supported the PDP candidate to defeat the APC candidate during the Oyo governorship poll.
