Save My Life, Ekiti Speakers Media Aide Tells Jonathan The Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Wole Olujobi, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to prevail on the PDP-led government in Ekiti State to spare his life over political differences. Olujobi in a press statement said he had been receiving calls from well-wishers to run away from Ekiti State over reports of plans to attack him by assailants loyal to highly placed individuals in the state, adding that the call became imperative in view of the past experience with the state government. The Speakers aide, who said he would have ignored calls by well-wishers who said they had discreet information on the planned attack, stressed that he was calling the attention of the President because of reports of strange men loitering about my home at Ijan-Ekiti last night whose mission was not known. Olujobi called the attention of the President to the relationship that existed between him and leaders of Ekiti State government in the past over the roles he played in reporting the events leading to the assassination of his cousin, Dr. Ayodeji Daramola, on August 14, 2006, saying his purported sack as the Special Adviser on Media to the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly by Governor Fayose is a reprisal for reporting in the media and telling the police all the events that led to the haunting of his cousin to death. Olujobi insisted that he and others purportedly sacked still remain Speakers aides because the governor does not have the power he exercised in removing them from office. He explained that the House of Assembly is an independent arm of government that enjoys autonomy from the Executive. His words: The sacking of the Speaker and Deputy Speakers aides is a smokescreen. I am the target of the sack. The governor still sees me as his enemy who contributed to his impeachment. My problem is that I told Nigerians and the entire world how my cousin was haunted to death during his first stint as the governor. Dr Daramola told me how he was forced to renounce governorship ambition on the state media. His voice was heard six times a day on the state media renouncing his ambition. We have all the records till today. He was denied registration at his Ijan Ward so that he would not be qualified to contest the election. The World Bank was given a condition to sack Dr Daramola before the government could pay counterpart funding for the World Bank projects in Ekiti State. Even when the World Bank saved Dr Daramola by posting him to Abuja to become the banks consultant, strange faces were always at his Ijan and Ado-Ekiti homes at nights shooting and harassing him. All these details my cousin told me and I reported them in the media. Few days ago, suspects arrested in connection with the assassination were reportedly missing in Ado-Ekiti prison where they had been held since 2006. Four days after my cousin assassination, two men visited my house demanding to see Daily Independent Editor claiming that they gave me money to help them publish a story. My co-tenant they met at the gate suspected foul play because he knows I dont do such things. He decieved them that there was no editor living in the House. I reported the incident at Ebenezer Police Station at Ojokoro Lagos and office of the then Lagos Police Commissioner, Emmanuel Adebayo, who is now the Elemure of Emure Ekiti. Second day, I received a text message sent through an MTN line 08068978526 reading: We were monitoring your movement throughout yesterday. You went to the Commissioner of Police and Femi Falana Chambers. It was your neighbour who saved you. Two of us visited your house but we were misinformed. We would have killed all the four occupants in a red car at Ikeja, but we thought otherwise. Later, suspects were arrested, including one Taye Olanipekun. A day after the suspects were paraded and their photographs published in the media, my neighbour called and asked me to see the pictures in the media, saying that a fair-complexioned man identified as Taye Olanipekun in the photograph was one of those that visited my house demanding to see Daily Independent editor. This led to my second petition to the Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero. Taye has since been in prison custody with other suspects, but reports said few days ago, Taye has disappeared from the prison custody. I am calling on the President to prevail on the powers- that-be in my state to save me from attackers while I also urge my professional colleagues in the media and Nigerian public in general to urge sanity in Ekiti State that is fast slipping into brigandage after four years of uninterrupted peace, Olujobi pleaded.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:48:46 +0000
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