Academic activities resumed yesterday in private and public schools in Ekiti State, following security scare over alleged plan by the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers to resume legislative business.
The schools were to resume on Monday.
A visit to some schools yesterday showed that lessons were going on.
In many private schools, parents were seen bringing their wards; some of them were sorting out payment of school fees.
School buses operated their shuttle service to convey pupils, who were waiting at various bus stops.
Teachers and pupils expressed their delight in beginning the new term.
In public secondary schools, some SS3 pupils were writing their West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
For the second day running, supporters of Governor Ayo Fayose came to the vicinity of the House of Assembly complex “waiting” for the APC lawmakers.
But the number of the People Democratic Party (PDP) members and sympathisers had thinned down, unlike the huge attendance on Monday.
Although they were not allowed near the parliamentary chambers by stern-looking security operatives, many of them still loitered around the vicinity.
Some people suspected to be thugs hid inside the bush around the Assembly wielding weapons and smoking marijuana.
Civil servants, many of who stayed away from work on Monday, reported for work yesterday.
Activities were going on at Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) throughout the day but the Monday incident formed the topic of discussion among civil servants.
The APC has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to prosecute Fayose for “inciting” residents to violence.
Its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said this became imperative, following the killing of a man in Efon Alaaye and the near collapse of peace after the governor made a live broadcast on state media.
“Fayose incited his supporters to attack the 19 APC lawmakers and prevented them from performing their constitutional duties.
“A few weeks ago, the governor mobilised his supporters to confront the APC lawmakers, who were coming to perform their legal duties in the state.
“He earlier urged his supporters to defend his mandate at all cost.
“In obedience to his order, his supporters in Efon stormed the security check-point and engaged security agents in a gun battle. In the ensuing melee, Modupe Olaiya was killed.
“Fayose rented a woman to pose as Olaiya’s mother. A few days later, the real mother showed up, raising the alarm that the impostor was a PDP woman leader.
“On Sunday, the governor made another broadcast, urging his supporters to prevent the lawmakers from sitting.”
The party urged the rights’ commission and ICC to investigate its earlier petitions, saying Fayose remained the greatest security risk to peace in Nigeria.
Source: The Nation
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