The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has raised an alarm over alleged clampdown on its leaders and supporters by Governor Ayo Fayose.<\/p>\n
The party said that the hounding of its leaders into jail is a fulfilment of the governor\u2019s declaration at his inauguration ceremony last year to run APC leaders out of the state.<\/p>\n
A statement by Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said the alarm became imperative in the face of persistent framing of APC members arrested on trumped-up charges that saw them ending up in jail.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the arrest of Rotimi Olambiwonnu Monday night, he said: \u201cGovernor Fayose at his inauguration ceremony last October publicly declared a one-minute silence for the death of APC in the state, promising to send the party members out of town.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrue 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 APC were transferred to the remote areas of the state while the governor is still after Fayemi\u2019s officials to seize their cars even when the matter is in court.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the same way he wants to eject them from their housing estate homes against legal agreement in the purchase of their houses.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Olatubosun said other persecution followed in quick succession, including attacks on APC members and candidates during campaigns and destruction of candidates\u2019 posters, while APC Assembly candidates were not allowed to run their campaigns.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly last night, another top sympathizer of our party, Mr Rotimi Olambiwonnu (aka Mentilo), was arrested over alleged complicity in the murder of the drivers\u2019 union late leader, Omolafe Aderiye, who was killed by unknown assailants in September last year,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Olatubosun expressed worry over police handling of the cases levelled against APC members, citing Niyi Adedipe\u2019s case, which the police in cahoots with the governor manipulated to ensure that the innocent man was clamped in jail over Omolafe\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n
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