Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has denied any relationship with those he referred to as “unscrupulous people who go about attacking innocent residents claiming that he sent them.”
The denial was contained in a statement issued yesterday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.
The governor also called on security agencies to arrest anybody caught assaulting law-abiding residents dropping his name in the process.
The statement reads in part: “We have it on good authority that the plot of these unscrupulous elements is to go about attacking notable indigenes of Ekiti State and claiming that they were sent by Governor Fayose.
“By announcing that they were Governor Fayose’s boys, the motive of the criminals has no doubt been exposed and it cannot be anything other than to set the people against the governor.
“We therefore wish to state categorically that Governor Fayose does not harbour criminals. He does not have boys anywhere, not to talk of sending them to attack innocent residents of Ekiti State.
“Anyone caught attacking or assaulting residents of Ekiti State in the name of “Governor Fayose’s Boys” should be apprehended and handed over to law enforcement agents for appropriate action.”
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