Ekiti APC petitions NSA over security crisis The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has petitioned the National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), calling his attention to security crisis in the state. The party alleged that there was “a sudden jump in security threats in Ekiti State shortly after Governor Ayodele Fayose was declared winner of the June 21, 2014 governorship election.” In the petition by the State Chairman of APC, Chief Jide Awe, the party noted that even though there were pockets of security breaches in the state during campaigns, the situation had worsened after his inauguration. APC revealed that it sent copies of the petition to Jonathan, the Inspector General of Police, Director General of DSS, Ekiti State Director of DSS and the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police. The party alleged a leap in insecurity shortly after “Fayose made a special request for redeployment to Ekiti State the policemen that formed the nucleus of a killer squad in Ekiti State between 2003 and 2006 as confirmed by the Presidential Security Panel Report on Political Killings in Ekiti State.” The APC’s petition reads in part, “We are worried by the antecedents of these police officers when they served Governor Fayose between 2003 and 2006. Our fear is not without basis. “A cursory look at the ‘Report of the Presidential Security Panel Investigation of Killings in Ekiti’ constituted by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005 succinctly leads us to the present fear, as state-sponsored terrorism rears its head again with particular reference to the same officers, who were indicted in that report and who have been recalled by Governor Fayose to his service in Ekiti State.” The party noted in particular that a certain former Chief Security Officer to Fayose, had been recalled to the service of the governor and now serves as his current Aide De Camp. But the Peoples Democratic Party has described the petition as a calculated attempt by Awe to divert the attention of the government from prosecuting him for the murder case in which he was the “chief accuse.” In a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti on Monday, the state Secretary of PDP, Dr. Tope Aluko, said that all the matters raised in the Jide Awe’s petition were dead issues which can no longer generate the kind of sympathy that the opposition party chairman would want. He stated that the people of the state had been overwhelmed by the criminal activities of the leadership of the APC. Aluko said it was embarrassing that a person currently facing a criminal charge of murder was “the one writing petition about matters of criminality which had abinitio resolved in favour of those he targeted the petition at. “There is no gainsaying the fact that the APC chairman is being hunted by his monumental travails and consequences of his bad case in the court of law in view of the fresh opening of his murder case by the state government.” Aluko implored the NSA not to take the petition serious saying that it is part of the antics of the APC whenever it discovered that it is being rejected by the people.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:17:04 +0000
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