Ekiti State governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Dr Kayode Fayemi,
The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has said that he has been a victim of police attack even as a governor.
Fayemi said this during a virtual meeting organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies to discuss the issue of insecurity in Nigeria.
According to him, “No matter how powerful you are as a governor, there are issues that you do not have control over because this is an over-centralised state as I mentioned earlier.
“The governor may direct his police commissioner but the inspector general of police may tell the police commissioner not to respond to that order.
“I have been governor for some time and I have been a victim of police attack even as governor. So people should not make any exaggeration about the powers of governors.”
On the issue of restructuring, Fayemi said governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have played their part, adding that the rest lies with the National Assembly.
He said, “I can tell you categorically, take APC governors, for example, we have in our manifesto the whole issue of restructuring. We set up a committee that worked on restructuring. The committee produced the report — that report was given to the national assembly to work on.
“Have they done it? That is an area where the legislative institute can work with the National Assembly to effect change if they see it as something that could relate with the general view of the ordinary Nigerians, not just the view of the political party.”
