By Yemi Olajutemu
Ado Ekiti
The Alawe Oba Adebanji Ajibade Alabi has warned the people of Ifaki Ekiti against laying claim to the law school newly approved for the South West geopolitical zone.
The monarch cautioned the people to desist from acts capable of causing havoc to peaceful co- existence in the state.
The former chairman Ekiti State council of traditional rulers noted that the People of Ilawe had been involved and carried along throughout the process and stages of the bill in the senate up to the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to him, two of the three senators representing Ekiti State including Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, from the Central and Senator Biodun Olujimi, South supported that Ilawe- Ekiti should host the Law School upon which the Senate agreed.
He said that the opinions of the two senator override the idea of Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi representing the North who was rooting for Ifaki Ekiti his home town.
In his words ” I was invited for a public hearing in Abuja where I spoke on behalf of traditional rulers of the benefitting communities across the six geopolitical zones where I expressed our readiness and preparations.
It is however a rude shock that some people would come out to lay claims of what they were neither involved nor considered for at any stage. Were they invited for public hearing? Can you just reap where you did not sow?”
Alawe lamented that the South Senatorial district had always been marginalized from federal establishments coming to the state as there was no single federal institution in the south despite the North and the Central having more.
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“the Senate observed that there was no federal institution in the south and that was why Ilawe Ekiti was considered. The people of Ifaki are just trying to to create problems where there should not be.
That was how the people from that area created problems for themselves between Oye and Ikole at the arrival of FOUYE.
If you think you can continue to dominate while you marginalized and shortchange the South Senatorial district, it will not be acceptable”
Oba Ajibade Alabi however advised those behind the claims to consult appropriate authorities for clarity of doubts.