The 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly yesterday alleged misrepresentation of the proceeding in the ex-parte motion filed by their seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) colleagues at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

But they vowed that the “impunity and manipulation of facts of his impeachment case in the media” cannot save Governor Ayo Fayose from impeachment.

Media reports yesterday suggested that the court restrained the 19 legislators from impeaching Fayose.

However, Speaker Adewale Omirin in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, said there was no such pronouncement from the court.

He said : “While the judge clearly ruled that it (court) could not stop Fayose's impeachment without hearing from the APC lawmakers, the governor's storm troopers went to town in a contempt of court to turn full circle the ruling by the judge.”

The lawmakers expressed dismay over the ease with which Fayose is trampling on democratic institutions.

Omirin said:”He first raided the courts and chased the judges under their tables and subsequently closed the courts. After that, he closed the House of Assembly and chased the lawmakers out of town.

“Then it is the turn of the Fourth Estate of the Realm, the media, in a mindless fraud and manipulation of the press to have an upper hand in the face of flagrant trampling on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“Just a few days ago, the governor's agents hacked into Channels Television's website to plant a story implicating Speaker Adewale Omirin and Senator Babafemi Ojuduý as engaging in impeachment funding fraud totalling N250 million.”

Fayose, according to him, is now creating for himself a reputation as an enemy of the state by killing all democratic institutions and their supporting structures in a mindless pursuit of power