Fayose, APC disagree on Ekiti prison attack The Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and News Media, Lere Olayinka, has accused the All Progressives Congress of importing thugs into the state to discredit the government. Olayinka alleged that the attack on the Ado-Ekiti Prisons in the early hours of Monday, was aimed at either setting free or killing the suspected killers of a former state Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Chief Omolafe Aderiye, who were being remanded in the prison. But the APC has described the claim as a deliberate falsehood to deceive Ekiti people and cast the immediate past Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, as a sponsor of crime. The party said it was a matter of common sense to conclude that with the sudden upsurge in crime now it meant that Fayemi was not a promoter of crime while Governor Ayodele Fayose’s government was crime-friendly. But in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, Olayinka said, “Those planning to make Ekiti a haven of criminals as they did between 2008 and 2010 should know that no one will be allowed to test the will of the government, no matter how highly placed.” He said the APC’s Plan A was to prevent Fayose from assuming office on October 16; Plan B was to use the party-controlled state House of Assembly to frustrate the government and Plan C is the invasion of the state with criminals so as to discredit the government. He said, “That was the reason the party was quick to issue a statement, blaming the robbery of a first generation bank in Ifaki-Ekiti on the governor. “One question the public must ask is; why was the prison attacked less than one week after Niyi Adedipe (Apase) was remanded in the prison custody? “Could it not have been that the invaders carried out the invasion to either free Niyi Adedipe and others remanded in the prison custody in connection with the murder of Omolafe Aderiye or kill them so as to prevent the exposure of their sponsors?” Olayinka recalled how criminals invaded the state between 2008 and 2010, during which several people, including the late Attah of Aiyede Ekiti, Oba Adeleye Orisagbemi, and the acting Provost of the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, Dr. Gabriel Olowoyo, were kidnapped and killed. “It was during this period that three officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SP Mohammed Manua, CPL Wasiu Olatubosun and CPL Simeon Obadero were murdered. “Insecurity in Ekiti State then was used by the APC (then Action Congress of Nigeria) to discredit the Segun Oni-led PDP government, and the leader of the gang responsible for all these killings and kidnappings, was linked with some leaders of the APC.” But the APC has faulted the report linking Fayemi with the gang leader, who the party claimed was Fayose’s supporter during his first stint as the governor of the state. In a statement on Tuesday, the APC state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taiwo Olatubosun, said Olayinka’s claim exposed his boss (Fayose) as the man who equipped the said gang leader to commit many crimes in the state before he was arrested. According to him, Olayinka misfired in the handling of his media propaganda for his boss (Fayose) by not recognising the fact that several people were in possession of the purported police report he relied on to indict the APC government. “It is a matter of common sense to conclude that, if there was no crime during the tenure of Governor Fayemi but a sudden upsurge in crime now that Governor Fayose assumed office, it means that Fayemi is not a promoter of crime while Fayose’s government is crime-friendly,” Olatunbosun said.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:29:09 +0000
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