Govt accuses FG of intimidating
Fayose
EKITI State government has raised the
alarm over attempts by the Federal
Government to intimidate the
government of Governor Ayodele
Fayose in the state.
This, the government said followed
series of intimidation by officials of
the Department of State Security
(DSS) against members of the state
House of Assembly and members of
the State Executive Council.
To this end, members of the state
Executive Council were said to have
gone into hiding to avoid being ar
rested.
Addressing a press conference in
Akure, the Ondo State capital, the
Secretary to the Ekiti State Govern
ment, Dr. Modupe Alade alleged that
officials of the DSS are on the trail of
some members of the state Executive
Council.
However, he declared that the
government and people of the state
would resist any attempt by the
Federal government to disrupt
democratic system in the state.
The SSG alleged that, “the Federal
government is intimidating the
present government in the state led
by Mr. Ayodele Fayose by planning to
arrest all the state lawmakers and
members of the state Executive
Council through the DSS operatives.”
She said all members of the state
Executive Council and political aides of
Governor Fayose are currently living in
fear following the alleged arrest of
some Lawmakers.
She said the decision to address the
press outside his state was because of
fear of being arrested by DSS officials,
who she said are after her and other
members of the Fayose led
government.
The SSG stated that she had been
receiving telephone calls from GSM
number +447442364448, adding that
the caller who identified himself as
Paul Okafor from DSS office told her
to report herself at the DSS office in
her own interest.
She said she declined the invitation
received through telephone as it was
not a formal invitation, noting that
the current situation in the state was a
plot by the Federal government to
disrupt the Fayose led government in
the state.
However, she expressed her readiness
to honour the DSS invitation if
formally invited, saying that “I have
no skeleton in my cupboard, but for
them to be embarrassing me with
phone calls, I will not accept that”.
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