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The former chairmen of the 16 local government areas in Ekiti who were sacked by Kayode Fayemi, the immediate past governor, have rejected the N35 million offered by Ayodele Fayose, incumbent governor.

Fayose made the offer out of the N3.3billion owed them.

On December 9, the supreme court ordered the state government to pay the chairmen and counsellors N3.3 billion as compensation.

In a unanimous judgment read by Chima Nweze, the apex court held that the sack by Fayemi was illegal and unconstitutional.

Ogunbiyi Olasunakanmi-Synergy, who led the sacked chairmen, made the rejection known at a news briefing on Thursday in Abuja.

He said an attempt to subvert the supreme court’s judgment would be resisted by “the good people of Ekiti’’ and called on Fayose to obey the verdict of the apex court.

Olasunkanmi-Synergy said violating the court would amount to a total disregard to the judgment.

“All the local government chairmen between 2008 and  2010 met today and unanimously rejected the governor’s offer because accepting such offer will be tantamount to disobeying the supreme court,” he said.

Olasunkanmi-Synergy said any negotiations from the governor should be done through Obafemi Adewale the association’s lawyer.

He called on the governor to act in the interest of the people who served the state “meritoriously’’.

The former chairman said denying them their benefit would not augur well for the members.