The DSS operatives had
reportedly invaded the state House of Assembly complex in Ado Ekiti and whisked
away four members to Abuja and said to be acting on the order from above.
Members of the Ekiti state
House of Assembly yesterday stormed Abuja the federal capital territory and
asked President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Department of State Services
(DSS) to release four of their members detained by the service since last
Friday.
Briefing newsmen at the
National Assembly complex in Abuja, the Chairman, Ekiti House Committee on
Information, Honourable Gboyega Aribisogan, said the call for the president to
direct the release of the detained legislators has become imperative because
the DSS would not embark on such action without presidential approval.
According to him, “Like we
have maintained plotters of evil against the government of Ayodele Fayose and
by extension the people of Ekiti State will not get our support. Babatope slams
DSS, APC Meantime, Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Ebenezer
Babatope, has slammed the Department of State Security Service (DSS) over the
alleged invasion of the Ekiti State House of Assembly and abduction of four
lawmakers, saying they must realise that they are working for Nigerians and not
a party or an individual.
This was just as recently
released Ekiti State’s Commissioner of Finance and Economic Development, Chief
Toyin Ojo, dressed down the DSS for asking him questions that were based on
mere rumours and lack merit.
Babatope, who is former
Minister of Transport and Director of Organisation for Obafemi Awolowo’s Unity
Party of Nigeria (UPN), spoke yesterday in Ado-Ekiti when he paid a solidarity
visit to Governor Ayo Fayose, In a related development, Chief Ojo, who was held
by the DSS on Monday, after the alleged Assembly invasion, but was released on
Tuesday, March 8, said many of the questions the DSS asked him were irrelevant
and baseless.
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