Presidency dining with murderers, says Fayose

Ayodele Fayose, Governor of Ekiti state, has accused the Department of State Services (DSS) of collaborating with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to destabilise his government.

Fayose also claimed that Jide Awe, chairman of APC in the state, was hosted to a dinner at the presidential villa despite standing trial for murder, while TKO Aluko on whom bench warrant was issued for alleged perjury, is going about with armed security men.

He was reacting to Monday’s claim by Ekiti state APC that he, by his actions, was a threat to national security.

“The All Progressives Congress (APC) is the real threat to the security of Nigeria and its people,” Fayose said through Lere Olayinka, his special assistant on public communications and new media.

“The major threat to national security is a party that lost election since June 21, 2014 and is still trying to get back to power, using crude means, including turning itself to the mouthpiece of the Department of State Services (DSS).

“It is only in Nigeria that a party that ran Ekiti State aground in four years and was rejected in six straight elections by the people can still be talking.

“The question that Nigerians must ask the APC Spokesperson in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatunbosun is whether he now doubles as the DSS spokesperson. In the last three weeks, everything the APC speculated that the DSS was going to do was exactly what the security agency did and that has reinforced the belief that the DSS was working in collaboration with the APC in Ekiti State to destabilise the Fayose-led government.

“It is also a fact that the chairman of APC in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe who is standing trial for murder was hosted to a dinner in the Presidential Villa while TKO Aluko on whose bench warrant was issued for alleged perjury is going about with armed security men.”

The governor’s spokesperson said no organisation is qualified to be dubbed a threat to national security other than the APC that was compromising major government institutions, including DSS, such that functionaries of the party were now the ones telling the security agency who to arrest and detain indefinitely.

“A party like the APC that its government kept silent when over 400 Agatus were killed by Fulani herdsmen in Benue State and women were raped, farmlands destroyed by the herdsmen in other parts of the country cannot be anything other than threat to national security,” he added.

“Or what should Nigeria call a party that caused the murder of over 20 Nigerians, including Youth Corp member in Bayelsa and Rivers States, just because of desperation to win elections?

“When you try to truncate democratically elected government, deny Nigerians rights to fair hearing by detaining them indefinitely and disobey court orders, while also failing to conduct free and fair elections, what is such a government inviting other than breakdown of law and order? And what should such a party in power be called other than security threat to Nigeria?”

Olayinka urged APC leaders in the state, especially former governor, Kayode Fayemi, to “stop falling prey to political 419, who are collecting millions of Naira from them, claiming to be helping them to fight Governor Fayose”.

“The APC leaders should ask themselves what result they have achieved since they started investing their money in this ‘Fayose must go’ agenda immediately after they were defeated in the entire 16 Local Councils in the State,” he said.

“Instead of lavishing millions of Naira on TKO Aluko and others, they should rather use such money to empower the remnants of their party members in Ekiti State who are in dire need of financial help.”