Ekiti Assemby crisis gets messier; Leaders Allege assassination attempts, petition CP
Ekiti State House of Assembly crisis is getting messier as some members, led by the Speaker are alleging threat to their lives and have petitioned the police in the state to protect them from people they alleged are hell bend to assassinate them.
The Speaker of the House, Kola Oluwawole, made the allegation on Tuesday while addressing newsmen at the chambers.
According to him, “a red Volkswagen Golf car was being used by some unidentified men to trail our members”.
Hon. Oluwawole in the petition he personally signed, listed the other members allegedly being trailed as Dr. Samuel Omotoso, chairman of the Assembly’s Committee on Information; Mr. Dayo Akinleye, Mr. Samuel Jeje and Mr. Fajana Ojoade, and claimed “the affected members are living in palpable fear”.
Hist statement in the petition to the state Commissioner of Police dated October 18th, 2016 reads inter alia: “The red Volkswagen golf car with registration number ADK 167 EV, trailed Hon. Omotoso from Bank Road to Textile/Bashiri, road while the same car trailed me to School of Nursing/Ori Apata area of Ado Ekiti.
“From our findings, we have discovered that fresh onslaught is to be unleashed on the House of Assembly because of our refusal to cooperate with external forces that are desirous of removing our governor”.
On the steps taken so far on the allegation, the Speaker said, “the Commissioner of Police in the state was the first to be informed. We have also informed other necessary security agencies”, and added that “the police and the security agencies are to figure out who the owner of the vehicle is and other things that would help them in their investigation because we have given them the necessary information”.
The Speaker blamed the opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC members in the state, saying they were in a collaboration with “the suspended member of the House, Hon. Gboyega Aribisogan and others”, and further alleged that “having tried all they could do to lure or coerce members of the House of Assembly into their evil plot to impeach the governor. Their plan is not to assassinate some of our members, with a view to conducting bye-elections into their seats and rig APC into the House through the back door”.
Olatomiwa Ajigi