Short of what to do again to attract wide publicity, the Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has turned himself into a clown. He has resorted to attacking an officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps at Ikere Ekiti whom he accused of flouting traffic rule.
Fayose, at the flagging off of the completion of the Ado-Ikere-Iju dualisation and the commissioning of the downtown market stall in the state today, stopped his convoy at Oke–Ikere area of the town and ordered that the traffic officer should be “arrested” and that his car should be seized.
The road safety martial, who was identified as Mr. Alabi, was said to be driving in his Peugeot 505 to Ikere Ekiti on the left side of the road with the intention of dodging the dilapidated portion of the dual carriageway.
The governor was said to have been infuriated by the action of the road safety martial.
It was not immediately known where the governor kept the “arrested” martial since it is clear that he has no cell in the government House to detain him, and what he has done with his car that was seized. [myad]