The All Progresives Congress
(APC) in Ekiti State has again accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of complicity in
the shooting incident that nearly claimed the life of Opeyemi Bamidele, a
former member of the House of Representatives.
It claimed that Fayose exhibited
callous conduct in his celebration of the unfortunate shooting incident at the
flag off and homecoming of the APC candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, at the
weekend.
Reports had alleged that a
suspected assassin fired bullets suspiciously meant for Dr Fayemi but missed
their target to hit Bamidele and five others.
A statement on Sunday by the
State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, accused Fayose of being
responsible for the unfornutate incident.
“We have it on good authority
that Fayose and the Chaplain of the Government House rejoiced on learning about
the unfortunate incident of attempt on Fayemi’s life.
“The immediate comment by Fayose
and his conduct by going on radio to warn people to avoid Ajilosun area while
accusing Fayemi and the APC of the incident confirmed loud whispers in town
that he knew about the attack.
“We are also aware of Fayose’s
usual style of creating an alibi when he ordered okada and bus operators on the
same day to converge on Fajuyi area of the state capital as Fayemi was being
received by his party.
“By conducting himself in this
manner, Fayose deliberately wanted to truncate the reception by causing a
show-down with the APC crowds in Fajuyi end of the town and used that to carry
out his planned coordinated attacks by his thugs he had already assembled in
the area,” he said.
Olatunbosun recalled the party’s
last reminder to the police in a petition signed by 15 political parties
informing the security agency about alleged Fayose’s plan to start attacking
and possibly assassinate members of the opposition as the July 14 election
draws near.
“In that petition, we listed
names of Fayose’s hit squad and also our party members already marked for
elimination. The attempt on Dr. Fayemi’ life on Saturday is therefore a
confirmation of the plot.
“This latest video is Fayose’s
familiar style of accusing others of what he intends to do; which is called
reversed psychology.
“Anytime Fayose wants to attack
the opposition members, he will accuse them of planning to attack the people
only to carry out the attack and later blame the opposition for it.
“We now have a strong suspicion
that Fayose is behind the failed assassination bid on Dr Fayemi and will stop
at nothing to eliminate him as he did to his opponents in the past,”
Olatunbosun explained.
He called on security agencies to
deploy special security forces to Ekiti State “in view of the recent threat to
the lives of Fayemi and other APC leaders”.
He said that as it was customary
with Fayose, rushing to the media immediately after the shooting happened to
make wild allegations indicated that Fayose knew about the unfortunate
incident, noting that his action was a cover-up to hide the facts of the
attempted murder.
“Fayose and PDP must tell the whole world what
they knew about this failed assassination bid. “The governor is supposed to be
the chief security officer of the state who should be concerned about attack on
the life of a prominent citizen but he has instead been making unguarded
statements which makes him a suspect,” Olatunbosun concluded.
The good people of Ekiti will not relent on their effort to call on the federal government for immediate removal of the police commissioner in the state.I have been hammering on this issue.He is a collaborator with Fayose and if is not removed,they still have many plans on election they have planned to rig,to frustrate oppositions,submission of already voted ballot box killing and maiming of all strong opposition elements.But am still calling on the police IG not to wait until damages are done to kindly remove the commissioner of police in the state because he has been biased by the state governor and the state PDP.Clemo.
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