The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of harassing its leaders and supporters with the aim of running the opposition out of the state.
A statement by Taiwo Olatubosun, publicity secretary of the party claimed that Fayose had been laying false allegations on its members, which had led to their arrest and incarceration.
The party was reacting to the Sunday night arrest of a former Ekiti Chairman of Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria, Mr. Rotimi Olambiwonnu (a.k.a. Mentilo), who was later arraigned before an Ado Ekiti Magistrate Court on Monday.
The statement further accused the governor of complicity in the murder of a former Ekiti State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Omolafe Aderiye.
Olatubosun said, “Governor Fayose at his inauguration ceremony last October publicly declared a one-minute silence for the death of the APC in the state, promising to send the party members out of town.
“True to his declaration, no fewer than 10 leaders of our party have been hounded out of town while two are in jail over trumped-up charges, even as teachers that were perceived as having sympathy for the APC were transferred to the remote areas of the state while the governor is still after Fayemi’s officials to seize their cars, even when the matter is in court.
“This is the same way he wants to eject them from their Housing Estate homes which runs against legal agreement in the purchase of their houses.
“His first victim was our Chairman, Chief Jide Awe, who the governor implicated in the murder of Mrs. Juliana Jeje and Ayo Jeje in Erinjiyan-Ekiti, even when it was proven that Awe was out of the town when violence broke out among party rivals that claimed the lives of the victims,” he said.
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