Fayose raises alarm, says policemen invade Ekiti to arrest lawmakers

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Eromosele Ebhomele
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has claimed Tuesday evening that armed policemen from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, have invaded the state to commence a late night arrest of leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, top government officials and 11 members of the state House of Assembly.
The governor alleged that the police officers is in the state in connivance with the All Progressives Congress, APC, the party currently at the federal level, are being led by one CSP Mohammed Abubakar of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Abuja.
Fayose said the would-be arrested ‘victims’ would be slammed with allegation of stockpiling arms during the June 21, 2014 governorship election.
Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, who made this known in a statement, said the new plot was an aftermath of the failure of the Department of State Services, DSS, to achieve the plot of coercing the House of Assembly members to impeach the Governor Fayose.
The statement alleged that the policemen were in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital with Mr. TKO Aluko and the state APC Chairman, Jide Awe.
The statement read: “we are aware of the arrival of policemen from Abuja to Ekiti State with the intention of arresting 11 members of the House of Assembly, two PDP leaders per local government and some other top officials of
the government.
“Ridiculously, the offense for which the policemen are to embark on this indiscriminate arrest is owing to Temitope Aluko’s malicious outburst that those listed for arrest stockpiled arms during the governorship election conducted in Ekiti close to two years ago.
“This plot is in furtherance of the APC plot to destabilise the government of Ekiti State just because of Governor Fayose’s hard
stance on President Mohammadu Buhari’s APC government policies.
“The question is, what was the arms they claimed …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper