“Fayose removed a dead body from the mortuary and presented it to Efon people” – Fayose Lied – APC Lawmakers

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has described the reports that APC convoy that belongs to lawmakers killed a man at Efon Alaaye-Ekiti yesterday.

It said that the report by Governor Ayodele Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, alleging that the law-maker’s convoy killed a man was the figment of his imagination and one in the series of media spins he had been selling to the unsuspecting public to mislead the people to get sympathy.

Reacting to social and electronic media reports of the purported killing, the Special Adviser on Media to Speaker Omirin, Wole Olujobi, said the governor’s aides were in a familiar terrain of mindless propaganda to mislead the public.

“The truth is that no one was killed. Nobody saw a dead body on the way up to Itawure junction where the soldiers disallowed us to pass. Itawure junction is not the same as Efon-Alaaye, so we don’t know where he got his story.

“However, we heard that Fayose removed a dead body from the mortuary and presented it to Efon people, claiming that Hon Folorunso Ogundele, a member of the House of Assembly and an indigene of Efon-Alaaye, was the one who pulled the trigger to kill a fellow Efon-Alaaye man in order to instigate violence in the town against him,” the statement explained.

It added: “For those who know Fayose very well, this story is typical of his rabble-rousing tactics to cause mob action against opponents.

“It is gratifying that the people were able to quickly decipher that Fayose was up to a mischief to set brothers against brothers.”

The statement explained that the soldiers who stopped the lawmakers on their way offered no explanation for their action. “Instead of losing our cool for their strange behaviour, we just left the place,” the statement explained. It added that sources later confirmed that the soldiers were allegedly under a firm instruction to disallow the lawmakers from passing through the check-point.

Meanwhile, the lawmakers have vowed to go ahead with the impeachment proceedings, saying that the lawmakers had a constitutional duty and responsibility to probe any infraction of the constitution.


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