Olufemi Atoyebi and Kamarudeen Ogundele
Nine lawmakers of the Ekiti House of
Assembly have fled Ekiti State to Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,
alleging that their lives were unsafe.
The lawmakers, who addressed a news
conference in Ibadan, on Wednesday, alleged that a batch of detectives
from the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja, arrived in Ado
Ekiti on Tuesday to arrest them.
They alleged that the batch was led by a Chief Superintendent of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.
The lawmakers alleged that some leaders
of the All Progressives Congress were seen helping policemen identify
their homes, stressing that they fled Ekiti because
their lives were
being threatened.
The Assembly’s Committee Chairman on
Information, Youths and Sports, Gboyega Aribisogan, who spoke on behalf
of other lawmakers in Ibadan, said it was ‘necessary to come to Ibadan
to alert the public to the new clandestine plot by the APC-led Federal
Government to cripple the government of Ekiti State’.
He said, “Yesterday (Tuesday), some
policemen led by one CSP Mohammed Abubakar of the Force CID, Abuja, were
brought to Ekiti State by the expelled former state Secretary of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. TKO Aluko and the Ekiti State APC
Chairman, Mr. Jide Awe.
“The assignment the policemen were to
carry out was to embark on an indiscriminate arrest of top functionaries
of the PDP and the state government, including 11 members of the state
House of Assembly.”
Meanwhile, the Ekiti State House of
Assembly has revealed that the three legislators declared missing by the
state government actually ran into hiding in order to evade arrest by
the officials of the Department of State Services.
Musa Arogundade, Badejo Anifowose and
Sina Animasaun were unveiled at a news conference addressed in Ado Ekiti
by the Speaker, Ekiti State House of Assembly, Kola Oluwawole and the
Chairman, Committee on Information, Youths and Sports, Gboyega
Aribisogan.
They had gone underground since March 4
when a member of the legislature, Afolabi Akanni, was arrested and
detained for 18 days by the DSS over alleged sundry allegations.
Oluwawole also announced that the
Assembly had directed the state lawmakers to shun any invitation from
the DSS due to an alleged plot to arrest and detain them.
He said, “We are lawmakers, we are not
law breakers. If the DSS had started on a good note, we would have
cooperated. But going by the questions posed to Akanni during
interrogation; they asked him why was he resisting an impeachment move
against Fayose? This shows that they have a sinister motive.”
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