In response to the demand by the Ministry of Justice to re-arrest and prosecute certain APC leaders, the Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised alarm over the threats to the lives of its state lawmakers. The party has accused the State Police Command of partisanship in the state crisis.
In response to the demand by the Ministry of Justice to re-arrest and prosecute certain APC leaders, the Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised alarm over the threats to the lives of its state lawmakers. The party has accused the State Police Command of partisanship in the state crisis.
In a statement Sunday by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Taiwo Olatubosun, the party said it is shocked by the police undisguised support for Governor Ayodele Fayose in the crisis rocking Ekiti State House of Assembly. It criticized the police support for the seven PDP members when they sat to illegally ratify the list of Commissioner-nominees and Caretaker members and also the purported removal of the Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin. It also criticized the Police for taking Fayose's accusation of the APC alleged plan to invade Ekiti with thugs as it's official intelligence report.
“It is curious that a day after Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, issued a press release accusing APC of plan to storm Ekiti with thugs recruited from a neighbouring state, the police that are supposed to play a neutral role also said in their own press release indicating that the opposition politicians are planning to recruit thugs from a neighbouring state for violence,” Olatubosun said.
“We are not surprised by the police role in Ekiti crisis. The police have been working in cohorts with the governor to sustain illegalities in Ekiti State. The police did nothing when Fayose’s thugs invaded the court to disrupt proceedings in the perjury case. They looked on when judges, lawyers and other court officials were beaten in the court premises while thugs broke into the office of the Chief Judge to tear court records.
“We have it on good record that Fayose specifically requested the police authorities in Abuja to post back to Ekiti all the policemen that he used to terrorise Ekiti people during his first tempestuous term. For instance one of them alias Shaba is in town working for Fayose. Just last night, agents of government were in the home of Deputy Speaker, Adetunji Orisalade, as strange men in dark suits visited his Ilogbo-Ekiti home in the night, asking about his whereabouts.
“At Ikere-Ekiti, the same gang in a black jeep with its number plate covered visited the homes of the two lawmakers representing Ikere Local Government, Hon Sunday Adu Clement and Hon Yomi Daramola. Sunday morning, we got several reports from each of the 19 Honourable members about similar threats to their lives,” Olatubosun explained.