It is also noted that Ekiti State House of Assembly members are in serious danger, but Nigeria Police Force is playing a partisan role in the crisis.
On Sunday Taiwo Olatubosun
who is the Publicity Secretary of the party realised a press statement saying
that APC is shocked by the police’ support for Governor Ayodele Fayose so far
in the crisis rocking the Ekiti State House of Assembly.
The seven members from
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, when they sat to ratify the list of
Commissioner-nominees and council leaders nominated by the governor were
supported by the police. Besides, allowing non-lawmakers to sit with the seven
PDP lawmakers is also criticised by tha APC.
It accused the police of
taking Mr. Fayose’s accusation as its official intelligence report that APC
lawmakers plan to storm Ekiti with thugs recruited from a neighbouring state to
cause mayhem.
The statement says: “It is
curious that a day after Governor 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”.
“We are not surprised by
the police role in Ekiti crisis. The police have been working in cahoots 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.”
The statement stresses that
at Ikere-Ekiti, the 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, APC got several reports from
each of the 19 Honourable members about similar threats to their lives.
“As we speak, the PDP thugs
are under the tree close to a police post within the Assembly Complex smoking
Indian Hemp but the police and DSS are doing nothing about it.”
APC urges the police to
provide security instead of helping to turn Nigeria into a killing field.
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