The Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, said the command had put in place 24-hour

security surveillance, particularly around the Assembly complex and other hot spots.

Lakanu said: “Security personnel have been placed on alert while high visibility patrol is being conducted around Ado Ekiti.

“We knew the tension generated must have caused some apprehension, but we are being proactive because the security of lives and property and general peace of the people is our topmost priority.

“We are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the safety of our citizens and for everybody to go about their normal business without fear or harassment.”

Also, the Chairman of the Ado Ekiti branch of the Nigeria Bar Association, Dr. Foluke Dada, has cautioned politicians in the state against heating up the polity.

The NBA said the acts of political intolerance between the Peoples Democratic Party and the APC in the state is affecting public peace.

Dada said: “We encourage both the APC and PDP to advice their members to exercise restraint and give peace a chance.

“The NBA will continue to work with major stakeholders, the Police and all political interests to ensure that the Ekiti project succeeds.”

Dada also called on the state Judiciary Staff Union to suspend its strike so that all pending matters affecting the state could be adjudicated upon in the interest of all.

The Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has warned the APC and its members in Ekiti State to tread cautiously so as not to endanger democracy in the country.

Adeyeye said: “Posting notice of impeachment of a state governor online when the House of Assembly never sat to pass any Motion for Impeachment is not only ridiculous, but criminal.”

In a statement, Adeyeye said it was necessary the President-Elect, General Mohammadu Buhari, should call members of the APC in Ekiti State to order so that they don’t by their desperation for power in the state truncate democracy on Nigeria.

He said it was disheartening that APC members in Ekiti State were capitalising on Buhari’s victory to cause crisis in the state.

He said: “If President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party had behaved the way APC people are behaving in Ekiti State now, the country would have been in chaos by now.”

Adeyeye, who described the purported impeachment notice as laughable, said legislative businesses are conducted inside the hallowed chamber of the House of Assembly, not online.

He said: “Is it online that lawmakers sit to move motion for impeachment, adopt the motion and serve impeachment notice?

“Dr Adewale Omirin, who signed the purported impeachment notice as Speaker of the State House of Assembly is in court, challenging his impeachment and if he is still the Speaker, what then is he challenging in court?

“Also, the online notice of impeachment was dated March 9, 2015 and the governor was given seven days to respond to the allegations purportedly made against him. So what has happened since March 16, 2015 that the seven days ultimatum ended?

“Methinks this is political comedy at its absurdity and the APC should stop this display of unseriousness and face the coming Saturday House of Assembly election, which they are going to lose.”