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  • APC will not rule Rivers again, says Fayose

    Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has boasted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not rule Rivers State again.

    The Ekiti controversial governor was among the guests that witnessed the project unveiling by Governor Nyesom Wike as one of the activities marking his one year in office.

    Speaking during commissioning of Bishop Okonye roads completed by Governor Wike’s administration, Governor Fayose said those squandering Rivers money are gone, stressing that Governor Wike has  enough energy which he said he (Governor Wike) is using to deliver on his promises.

    However, Governor Wike yesterday commissioned Eliozu-Rumuduru Oru-Igwe roads, Eneka-Rumukpokwu road, Bishop Okonye road, Azikiwe road, Mandela road and Rumuaholu.

    Addressing the residents and traders at Bishop Okonye road, a popular market road in Port Harcourt, governor Wike said will never tolerate any road trading at the street.

  • Fayose’s  PDP faction elects exco

    Fayose’s  PDP faction elects exco

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction loyal to Governor Ayo Fayose on Tuesday held its state congress where former Commissioner for Information, Gboyega Oguntuase was elected Chairman.

    Oguntuase polled 554 votes to defeat his rival, Victor Mebuseye, who obtained 34 votes at the congress conducted at Fountain Hotels, Ado Ekiti, the state capital.

    Others officials who emerged at the governor’s faction congress include Olu Adebayo (Deputy Chairman), Anthony Falade (Treasurer), Mrs. Yemisi Afolabi (Women Leader), Rotimi Adekola (Youth Leader), Ayo Oladimeji (Organizing Secretary), and Jackson Adebayo (Publicity Secretary).

    The congress was observed by the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies.

    Another PDP faction in the state had earlier in the day elected Chief Williams Ajayi as Chairman at a parallel congress held at the Omo Ilu Foundation secretariat, Ajilosun, Ado Ekiti.

    An electoral panel from the party’s National Secretariat who witnessed the congress include Chief Henry Ikoh, Ayo Aluko-Olokun and Diran Odeyemi.

    Ikoh described the conduct of the delegates as “commendable and worthy of emulation.”

    He expressed satisfaction that “the congress was devoid of any rancour as the delegates elected the candidates of their choice.”

    Odeyemi hailed the delegates for making the assignment of the panel easier by conducting themselves in a peaceful manner from the beginning to the end of the exercise.

    INEC representative,Taiwo Gbadegesin, disclosed that the report of the congress would be forwarded to the electoral agency for necessary action.

  • I didn’t reconcile with Fayose- Aluko

    I didn’t reconcile with Fayose- Aluko

    Former Secretary  Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tope Aluko has said the purported reconciliation between him and Governor Ayodele Fayose was not true.
    At a conference in Lagos,  Aluko said he was under duress to admit to a reconciliation which was aimed at tarnishing his integrity.
    He said he had gone to Eko Hotel Lagos on Sunday, April 3, to honour an invitation by the PDP leadership to address some issues affecting the state, stressing that Ekiti has been in the news for the wrong reason in recent times.
    Aluko said he went to the meeting in the company of his wife and  was shocked to see Governor Fayose walked into the meeting. He said  he was obliged to be at the meeting because he was invited by two senior members of the party.
    “I need not recall the drama and face off that ensued between me and Fayose  inside the meeting. It is worthy of note that it was at this point that my wife badged into the meeting to inform me of the presence of pressmen.
    “At that point I became I became enraged and decided to leave the the place but I noticed Governor Fayose rushing after me downstairs in a gestapo manner.
    “My wife was already fidgeting and almost crying and suddenly I could not find her around me. I immediately realized that I need to oblige Governor Fayose’s  instruction of the facing the press because of the safety of my family. “
    The former PDP scribe stressed that he never refuted his earlier position and still stood by his words. “I have earlier said before before Nigerians and the whole world about the manipulation that characterized the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State and still stand by all I said.
    “You will also notice the several counter allegations by Fayose and his media team that none of them has refuted all I have said, rather the attack has been on the messenger and not the message. I will like to apologise to all Nigerians that perhaps, accepting the invitation was a tactical error.
    “I will also like you to know that I am dealing with a master fraudster who is always full of mischief. You will allrecollect how he announced the purported death of Hon. AfolabiAkanni; the purported arrest of four members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly that later resurfaced.
    ” I need to emphasize that all that transpired at Eko Hotel on that faithful day was an organized propaganda/drama to stain my image and malign my personal integrity and I believe it would be a good script for Nollywood act,” he said.
  • Fayose sacks Ekiti revenue boss over alleged fraud

    Fayose sacks Ekiti revenue boss over alleged fraud

    Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has sacked the Chairman of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Ropo Ogunjobi over multimillion Naira fraud allegedly uncovered in the agency.

    Although the amount involved could not be immediately ascertained Friday, the fraud angered Fayose which made him to relieve Ogunjobi who also doubled as his Special Adviser on Revenue Matters.

    A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Modupe Alade said Ogunjobi was removed for “negligence.”

    Two other persons were apprehended by agents of the state government and immediately handed over the suspects to the police.

    Investigations reveal that perpetrators include some staff of the board who collaborate with outsiders to commit the crime.

    The two suspects handed over to the Police by Fayose are a revenue officer, Omotayo Ojo and a printer, Akinniyi Akinsola

    Fayose revealed that the duo colluded together to print fake revenue receipts as well as issuing fake tax clearance certificates to unsuspecting residents.

    The suspects were said to have printed and began putting to use a total of 10 packets of fake revenue receipts before nemesis caught up with them.

    Fayose warned the people of the state to stop paying money directly to any revenue officer but to pay through the designated banks.

    The state Commissioner of Police, Etop James, who confirmed the development, explained that the command has launched investigation into fraud.

  • Ekitigate: You can’t escape Justice, APC tells Fayose

    Ekitigate: You can’t escape Justice, APC tells Fayose

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has responded to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s allegations in his press conference in Lagos purporting that APC was planning to illegally use the Supreme Court to upturn his mandate in favour of the party.

    The party accused the governor of blackmail, saying his fraudulent and pre-emptive tactics will not stop justice from taking its course in the resolution of the biggest electoral fraud in the history of Nigeria.

    Publicity Secretary of APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in a statement that Fayose’s alleged fraudulent attempt to draw the support of the international community to poll fraud was an impish attempt to legitimise fraud, stressing that the same international community had since realized that world leaders were also victims of Fayose and Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) fraud by misleading them in Fayose’s electoral victory in Ekiti State.

    “Even though the international community declared that Ekiti poll that produced Fayose was fair, the same world leaders have since changed their position after listening to Ekiti poll fraud tape as secretly recorded by Captain Sagir Koli detailing how Fayose and PDP leaders rigged the election, including Fayose himself talking in the tape on how he collected INEC soft copies and got them printed to win the election,” Olatunbosun explained.

    He added that the governor was running away from his shadow after failed bids to beg President Muhammadu Buhari who he abuses daily.

    “Why did Fayose try to pressurize members of the Military Panel to rescue him? After his emissaries returned empty-handed in their failed bids to achieve their aims, Fayose has now resorted to blackmail, accusing the President of trying to destroy democracy and we wonder who among him and the President is the enemy of democracy.

    “This is the man that sacked the court and beat up a judge. This is a man that used seven members to impeach a Speaker and closed the House of Assembly against 19 members of the Assembly for six months. This is a man that ran all opposition politicians out of town during elections and launched relentless attacks on opposition candidates during election,” Olatunbosun said.

    He said Fayose should explain to Nigerians and the international community what he meant in the Ekiti poll fraud tape where he said he collected INEC soft copies that he printed to win his election.

    He said: “Besides declaring in the tape that he collected INEC soft copies that he printed, Fayose also said in the tape that a collation was done days before the election in Efon-Alaye and we want to ask whether Efon-Alaye was the collation centre for Ekiti governorship election and whether it is not a fraud to collate the result of an election that had not been held.

    “If a criminal case that is taken to court and the court assumes jurisdiction to try that criminal case is what Fayose would call illegality and destruction of democracy, is it printing INEC soft copies and collation of results days to the election that is legal and a boost to the practice of democracy in Nigeria?”

    The party said no amount of crocodile tears shed from one television house to the other and blackmail of the ruling party would make him escape justice in the resolution of Ekiti State election fraud.

  • Fayose vows to go ahead with LG polls

    Fayose vows to go ahead with LG polls

    Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Sunday vowed that no circumstances would make him shift grounds on his plans to hold local government elections in the state on December 19.

    The governor made the declaration at a ceremony organised to mark his 55th birthday in Ado-Ekiti.

    Fayose said that threats of boycott by any political party would not make him to jettison his plans to conduct the local government polls on that day.

    He said that since no provision of the constitution invalidated the credibility of such an election, those calling for its cancellation had no justification for their position.

    The governor urged those who were interested in the welfare and development of Ekiti State to join him in his plans to implement policies and programmes that were designed to make the state the envy of others.

    Fayose pledged to use the rest of his life to work for the development of Ekiti State in a manner that would provoke other states to take a cue from the state’s development patterns.

  • Ekiti’s descent to anarchy

    Ekiti’s descent to anarchy

    Security agencies must be alive to their responsibilities and let the legislative arm do its job unfettered

    Is Ekiti State still a part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and subject to the authority of the 1999 constitution, which is the supreme law under which the country is governed? It is difficult to credibly answer this question in the affirmative, especially since Mr Ayodele Fayose’s election as governor of the state at the June 21, 2014 polls. Since his emergence as governor-elect and even more so after he was inaugurated on October 16, 2014, the rule of law has practically been in abeyance in Ekiti State. The governor, who should be the symbol of law and order as the Chief Security Officer of the state has become the pivot around which lawlessness revolves and the prime source of insecurity within his sphere of jurisdiction.

    True, Fayose remains the governor of Ekiti State in accordance with the will of the people for as long as his election has not been upturned by judicial or other constitutionally sanctioned processes. However, it borders on treason for him to utilise his executive powers derived from the constitution to undermine the same constitution by incapacitating other arms of government and imposing a reign of tyranny, arbitrariness and violence on the state, which is exactly what he has been doing.

    As governor-elect, Fayose’s army of thugs invaded the premises of the Ekiti State judiciary, violently disrupting and ultimately truncating court proceedings in a case filed by a group of Ekiti State indigenes challenging his eligibility for the office. Fayose was physically present at the scene where a judge was beaten up and his suit torn to shreds while court records were destroyed. This is one of the worst cases of impunity in the country’s political history. That this travesty remains unpunished is an indication of the degree of anomie that has characterised the Jonathan presidency.

    On his being sworn in as governor, Fayose commenced a systematic assault on Ekiti State House of Assembly, particularly intimidating, harassing and hounding the 19 legislators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who remained faithful to their party. He directed that a petrol station in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, owned by the Speaker, Wale Omirin, be shut down, claiming that the facility constituted an environmental menace. Fayose further sacked the personal staff of the Speaker, rendering his office ineffective.

    When the legislators refused to succumb to intimidation, the governor instigated a minority of seven members of the House belonging to his party to purportedly impeach the Speaker in a House comprising 26 members. The state security agencies, which are supposed to uphold the law, provided cover for this act of lawlessness, which amounts to a coup against the constitution. Fearing for their lives in a state where the rule of law had been replaced by impunity, the 19 majority legislators fled the state and had since been on exile from Ekiti.

    However, with the emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari as President-elect in the March 28 election, and even before his formal assumption of office on May 29, a sense of sanity is being restored across the country. For instance, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Department of State Security (DSS) in Ekiti State have restored the security detail of Dr Omirin, which was withdrawn after his purported impeachment. This indicates that the security agencies recognise that the impeachment was patently illegal and cannot stand in an emergent order that upholds the rule of law.

    In the exercise of the Assembly’s constitutional powers, the 19 APC members of the House have issued Fayose an impeachment notice, accusing him of acts of gross misconduct in the exercise of his powers. Rather than respond to the issues or seek requisite judicial remedies to stop the legislators, Fayose has, since Monday, instigated widespread violence and mayhem across Ekiti. His hemp-smoking and arms-wielding thugs and hoodlums have disrupted the peace and held the state hostage in Ado Ekiti and several other towns. When he eventually decided to go to court, the Federal High Court in Abuja to which he went failed to grant his prayer to stop the legislators from doing their work.

    Meanwhile, a detachment of soldiers, allegedly acting on the directive of Brigadier-General Aliyu Momoh, Brigade Commander, 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure, had earlier prevented the 19 APC lawmakers from entering Ado Ekiti, thus contravening their freedom of movement and aiding Fayose in his insolence and lawlessness. This is nothing but a descent to anarchy in Ekiti, which must not be allowed to stand.

    We call on the requisite security agencies to immediately restore law and order in the state and create a conducive environment for the legislature to function. The prevalent situation in the state is an unpardonable failure of security. All security agents implicated in the reign of impunity in Ekiti must be investigated and made to face the law.  We are aware that it is the people of Ekiti State who have the right to determine their governor. However, on no condition can such a person be allowed to hide under the guise of populism to violate the law and undermine constitutional rule.

  • Alleged Ekiti Killing: You lied, APC tells Fayose

    Alleged Ekiti Killing: You lied, APC tells Fayose

    • As Police arrest PDP thugs with dangerous weapons

     

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has described as untrue reports that the convoy of the APC lawmakers killed a man at Efon Alaaye-Ekiti on Tuesday.

    It said that the report by Governor Ayodele Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, alleging the lawmakers’ convoy killed a man was the figment of his imagination and one in the series of media spins he had been selling to the unsuspecting public to mislead the people to get sympathy.

    Reacting to ‎social and electronic media reports of the purported killing, the Special Adviser on Media to Speaker Omirin, Wole Olujobi, said the governor’s aide was in a familiar terrain of mindless propaganda to mislead the public.

    “The truth is that no one was killed. Nobody saw a dead body on the way up to Itawure junction where the soldiers disallowed us to pass. Itawure junction is not the same as Efon-Alaaye, so we don’t know where he got his story.

    “However, we heard that Fayose removed a dead body from the mortuary and presented it to Efon people, claiming that Honourable Folorunso Ogundele, a member of the House of Assembly and an indigene of Efon-Alaaye, was the one who pulled the trigger to kill a fellow Efon-Alaaye man in order to instigate violence in the town against him,” the statement explained.

    It added: “For those who know Fayose very well, this story is typical of his rabble-rousing tactics to cause mob action against opponents.

    “It is gratifying that the people were able to quickly decipher that Fayose was up to a mischief to set brothers against brothers.”

    The statement explained that the soldiers who stopped the lawmakers on their way offered no explanation for their action. “Instead of losing our cool for their strange behaviour, we just left the place,” the statement explained.

    It added that sources later confirmed that the soldiers were allegedly under a firm instruction of Brigadier-General ‎Aliyu Momah to disallow the lawmakers from passing through the check-point.

    It said that General Momah, whose voice was heard among those that were implicated in the leaked audio tape detailing Ekiti election fraud, is the Commander of the Battalion where the soldiers at the check-point‎ are attached.

    Meanwhile, the lawmakers have vowed to go ahead with the impeachment proceedings, saying that the lawmakers had a constitutional duty and responsibility to probe any infraction of the constitution.

    Also yesterday, five suspected thugs working for PDP were seized by the police in Ado-Ekiti. They include one Ademola Bello, S.A to Fayose on Political Matters, one Ojo, Wasiu Ogunshakin, Dada Adewumi, Kayode Oso, Commissioner for Works, Adeyanju Oluwole, Raphael Adebayo and Babajide Adebayo.

    They were arrested in a black colour Ford Hilux vehicle with registration number – EK 05B27 -and one blue coloured Toyota Hilux with registration number – AA 363 YEK.

    Recovered from them are 250-litre container of petrol, a container of acid, guns, axes, cutlasses and charms. They were also in possession of fake US Dollars and a parcel of Indian hemp.

    The thugs were arrested about 200 meters to Ekiti State House of Assembly where they planned to storm the Assembly to attack APC lawmakers.

    Scores of other suspected thugs escaped arrest as they abandoned their vehicle and fled to the bush.

  • Fayose under fire over death wish for candidate

    Fayose under fire over death wish for candidate

    Amosun, others condemn action

    Governor: I’m not on his trail

    Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose came under fire yesterday as eminent Nigerians criticised his continous death wish for All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

    Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, Senator Ayo Arise, Ekiti State APC and others had harsh words for the governor.

    But despite the criticism of his hate message, Fayose yesterday in Abuja inissted that Gen. Buhari is receiving treatment in a London hospital.

    Amosun wondered how some people in the name of politics could descend to a ridiculously low level of wishing Gen. Buhari dead.

    Amosun, who travelled to London with Buhari and returned on Sunday, wondered how a “sane person” could wish his fellow human being ill or dead , adding that it is even a “disgrace to the Yoruba race” for a Yoruba to indulge in such.

    The governor, who spoke with reporters shortly after a meeting with representatives of over 57 Community Development Associations(CDAs) and Cooperative Societies at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, said “Buhari is alive, hale and hearty”.

    The APC presidential candidate is agile and healthier than the “character” behind the spate of ill-will and death wishes against him, he said.

    The governor urged genuine lovers of democracy and humanity to call those wishing the former Head of State dead to order, stressing that the strange practice did not only go against tradition but does not have basis in Christianity and Islam.

    Amosun said: “Let me say this is a big shame. We are Yoruba. It is an unwritten rule they would say that even if in different pàrties they are not fighting, they want to represent our people. How can a sane person wish somebody else dead? Why? It has never happened, it is a disgrace.

    “For your information, Buhari is even stronger than the character saying the man is ill, maybe because of his military background.

    “The man is hale and hearty for his age. It is like Baba Obasanjo;  this is  a man that is very agile and you just have to tell him slow down to catch up with, just like some people will tell me to slow down.

    “We went to about five places. Even when I went to Ben Television, I told him, ‘sir, you can’t follow me; you have to go home;’  he was ready to follow me even in the cold.

    “The man was working round and you saw the photoshop they are using; they sre saying a lot of rubbish. That is not politics;  it has descended to an abysmal level. All lovers of democracy and humanity should call them to order.

    “Politics will end one day and where will such people be? I think they are descending to a level that is unheard of, that negates good living.”

    Senator Arise, a PDP chieftain, who spoke on a Channels Television breakfast programme monitored in Ado-Ekiti, said although Fayose is entitled to his opinion, he is not speaking for the party.

    To Arise, who represented Ekiti North in the Senate between 2007 and 2011, the hate campaign mounted by Fayose is needless as all what is needed is for PDP members to work for the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan at the March 28 presidential contest.

    He said: “Our party has come out strongly to say that Fayose is not speaking for the party. So, I won’t say he is not entitled to his opinion at this level.

    “But, left to me as an individual, I disagree with him on this. I believe we don’t need such in the PDP. All we need is to work hard and campaign for Mr. President to win the election fair and square.”

    In a statement on Monday signed by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, the Ekiti APC accused Fayose of diverting the attention of Nigerians from his alleged fraudulent victory as revealed in the audio tape leak.

    It said the revelations in the tape would not be eclipsed by his anti-Buhari campaign antics, stressing that the money the governor is spending in his hate campaign could have been channelled into productive activities for the benefit of Ekiti people.

    The statement said: “He knows with Gen. Buhari as the President, that will be the end of impunity and fraud through which he was declared the governor.

    “He knows he can’t survive the revelations contained in the tape when Buhari becomes the President. That is why he wants General Buhari dead. We know Fayose very well. He will go to any length in his hate campaign, wishing Buhari dead. But he will not succeed.

    “Theý spirits of Nigerians that desire change in their lives are stronger than Fayose’s selfish spirit whose only wish among millions of Ekiti is to build an empire around himself with stupendous wealth while Ekiti people beg him for crumbs from his table.

    “Governor Fayose is taking his hate campaign against General Buhari to the level of personal agenda far and above the collective agenda of Ekiti people for good governance and development of the state.

    “If Fayose had taken the issues of development seriously as he is doing in his hate campaign against Buhari, the effects could have been felt in many areas that are germane to the state development,”the APC added.

    It said: “Fayose is busy on two fronts. One, in Ekiti, he keeps telling the people and workers in particular about the debts profile and the difficulty that he will face in paying workers’ salary, starting from March while saying nothing about his development plans for the people.

    “Outside giving Ekiti people chicken and rice, he doesn’t have any development plan.

    “At the national level, he is busy with anti-Buhari campaign, wishing the APC presidential candidate dead and completely unable to divorce his personal interest of political survival from the collective interest of Ekiti people for a purpose-driven government that caters for the general good of the people.

    “We have no doubt in our minds that Fayose needs medical attention.”

    Oyo State chapter of the Buhari Campaign Vanguard said Fayose’s  “antecedents and precedents constitute serious affront to human dignity”.

    Speaking in Oyo town, the State Deputy Co-ordinator for the Vanguard, Chief  Segun Taiwo said: “How on earth could a right-thinking and normal human being who is not a human type be wishing his fellow being dead because of politics.

    “Is Fayose God? Can he tell us when he will die, where and how? Who is Fayose to determine future aspiration of his fellow being? It is even a taboo in Yoruba culture to wish anybody dead.”

    Fayose denied yesterday the reports that he had sent some people on Gen. Buhari’s trail.

    He spoke at a news conference in Abuja on the health of Gen Buhari, saying he is receiving treatment in a London hospital.

    He said: “At Buhari’s age, I don’t need to run after him. My prayer is that he live long. Buhari is old even to govern a state. He is frail, old and not strong to run the affairs of this country.

    “General Buhari is not well, he is sick in the hospital. This is not personal. I am not against the North. I am not against the South. Our leaders should show us their medical records.

    “I am saying that Nigeria needs a healthy leader who will be able to address the problems of this country. Even in advanced countries, those wishing to lead present their medical records because they know the amount of energy to be deployed.”

    Fayose also spoke on the interview Gen. Buhari granted a London television station, All Eyes on Africa, which he said was conducted in Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja room.

    Also, the governor admitted that he participated in the June 20, last year Ekiti governorship election rigging meeting, secretly recorded in an audio tape by Captain Sagir Koli.

    He said: “Yes, the voice in that audio tape is mine. If you listened very well, you would have heard me complaining about attempts by the APC to rig the election,” Fayose said.

    He had earlier denied ever been at such a meeting.

  • Stop ‘arresting’ students, APC tells Fayose

    Stop ‘arresting’ students, APC tells Fayose

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has berated Governor Ayodele Fayose for the clampdown on the state leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for speaking at the party’s presidential campaign at the weekend.

    A statement by APC State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said a students’ leader, Tosin Ogunkuade, spoke at the event.

    Olatubosun said Ogunkuade’s offence was that he highlighted the challenges facing students, saying the present effort by the government was not capable of redressing the hardship faced by the students in accessing quality education.

    The APC spokesman said: “He said to the applause of hundreds of students in attendance that Buhari presented a better hope for students in their educational pursuits.

    “Just 24 hours after,  thugs trailed Ogunkuade to Ikogosi-Ekiti where he and other students were attacked with deep machete cuts.

    “After these students were attacked at Ikogosi, they ran to Efon-Alaye Police Station to report the matter. To our surprise, the police detained them before they were transferred to Aramoko-Ekiti Police Station.

    “To our shock again, yesterday morning, one of their colleagues, Damilare Bewaji, who went to visit them at the Aramoko Police Station, was also detained by the police on the order of the governor.

    “Just this morning, the home of former Commissioner for Finance under ex-Governor Kayode Fayemi, Dapo Kolawole, escaped being razed.

    His offence was that he pasted APC flags and posters on his building.

    “It is curious that the students, who were the complainants, are being turned into the accused, as the police are being suborned to slam criminal charges against them.”

    Olatubosun added that the same spectre of violence was reported in Efon-Alaye, where APC leader Joseph Alake had his house vandalised by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs.

    “The Divisional Police Officer was reportedly injured trying to rescue the man.”

    The APC spokesman urged the police to stop being partisan in the handling of political crisis in the state.