Students of tertiary institutions in Ekiti State on Monday trooped to the streets to protest against the suit filed by former Governor Kayode Fayemi seeking dissolution of the probe panel set up by the state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose to probe his administration.
The students said Fayemi’s action was an attempt to use the judiciary to shield himself from answering questions on allegations of corruption leveled against him by the state government.
The state House of Assembly had directed the governor to set up the judicial panel following the failure of the minister to honour earlier invitations extended to him by the Assembly to answer questions bothering on financial misappropriation while in office.
But Fayemi had gone to the court to ask for the desolution of the panel.
The students drawn from National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Federation of Ekiti State Students’ Unions, marched from the Oluyemi Kayode stadium in Ado-Ekiti, to Ojumose where they addressed the press.
They carried placards with inscriptions such as "Ekiti students support Fayemi’s probe," Fayemi, where are the N1 billion flowers"," We say no to corruption" and "Fayemi don’t hide, come to Ekiti to exonerate yourself!" among others.
Speaking on behalf of the students, Idowu Peter, President, FESSU, said: "we are protesting endemic corruption of political office holders in Nigeria and we are demanding that the fight against corruption by the Federal Government should be across board and not sectional or restricted to only the opposition party.
