On the 9th of July, 2018, as the Chief Security Officer of Ekiti state, Governor Ayodele Fayose, in an alarming broadcast, gave two â€œORDERS”. He did this, in anticipation of the massive crowd that would welcome the candidate of the APC (Dr. Kayode Fayemi) in the forthcoming elections to the venue of the Oluyemi Kayode stadium where the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other APC bigwigs would make an appearance:

• That markets should close
• That public transporters (bus and Okada drivers) should not work, so as to prevent them from conveying the supporters of Dr Kayode Fayemi to the venue of the rally.

By this doing, Governor Fayose trounced several fundamental human rights: Right to Personal Liberty, The Right to Dignity of Human Person, Right to Peaceful Assembly and Association, and Right to Freedom of Movement. This is how emperors and oppressive dictators emerge.

Mr Fayose showed the world the true nature of his character – being a petty, oppressive, tyrant – by subjecting the great people of Ekiti to a suppressive tormenting experience. A leader is tolerant, well-intentioned, and seeks after the economic and social well-being of his people. The operative word being A LEADER. Fayose is an evil, wicked, and a belligerent individual who seeks nothing but the absolute torture of his people: mentally, emotionally, economically, and physically.

Governor Fayose ordered the complete closure of markets – blighting economic revenue for the majority of people, a people whose salaries he has failed to pay. Emperor Fayose’s orders failed in his attempt to distort the narrative, show a conceited sense of loyalty and love for him, and publicly impose himself as the one and true Lord of Ekiti.

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He failed, and woefully too. The people of Ekiti defied his order. They came to the Oluyemi Kayode stadium in record numbers. Some trekked and others helped to transport others in the process. The Ekiti people protested the wickedness of Emperor Fayose, and expressed their resentment of the subversion of their will and his imposition in the 2014 election manipulation through the tacit knowledge and approval of former President Goodluck Jonathan. The Ekiti people showed that no manner of tyranny can deter them from voting out his repressive government on July 14, 2018.

As a poor student of history, Fayose would not know how the Ekiti people despise oppression, and the protest it took to wrestle back power in 2010: women protested stark-naked, markets shuttered, and eventually, the will of the people prevailed. It is the same protest that will lead to his ouster and the rejection of his stooge on July 14.

No one can subdue the desires of a determined people; No one can erase their commitment to social justice; No amount of mental, economic, and physical torture can suppress the WILL OF THE PEOPLE OF EKITI STATE.