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Our attention has been drawn to a press statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to Ekiti State Governor, Yinka Oyebode on Saturday, 21st of December, 2013 that one Oyediran Afolabi and Sunday Oluwafemi were apprehended at the residence of the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor Kayode Fayemi on Internal Security, Mr Deji Adesokan, (aka Jaruu), on the allegation that the duo were on the mission “to assassinate” the said Fayemi’s aide.
In the statement, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, characteristically attempted to malign the image of Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele by alleging that the two “gunmen” arrested were sent by the lawmaker, who obviously is the foremost challenger to Governor Kayode Fayemi in the 2014 governorship race of Ekiti State, to “assassinate” Mr. Deji Adesokan (Jaruu).
Given the mischievous way the story was presented to the public, it is important for us to put the record straight to avail the members of the public an opportunity to know the truth of the matter.
In the first instance, Mr. Deji Adesokan (aka Jaruu) is a notoriously celebrated persecutor of perceived opponents of Governor Kayode Fayemi who would stop at nothing to implicate, intimidate, harass and, where he can, outrightly kill to ensure a second term tenure so desperately desired by Governor Olukayode John Fayemi in spite of the increasing rejection by well-meaning Ekiti people who are insisting that they can not be fooled more than once
Governor Fayemi’s media aide claimed in his statement that one of the two men arrested, Mr Oyediran, is a security aide to Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele. Nothing can be farther from the truth than this and it represents another failed and desperate attempt by Gov. Fayemi and his cronies to pull Hon. Bamidele down from his towering political heights by all means. No doubt, this a deliberate set up. Otherwise, this is an attempt to cover up yet another embarrassing protest by some of Jaru’s goons who are known by neighbours within his residential estate to occasionally come to protest their being short changed by the Governor’s security aide who they believe is always cutting back on Governor’s largesse to them as “His Excellency’s good boys”.
Without mincing words, it is crystal clear to us that the linking of Oyediran’s arrest to Hon. Bamidele is a deliberate attempt to malign his (Bamidele’s) image and a calculated ploy to discredit his personality owing basically to his rising political profile and growing popularity as an aspirant for the forthcoming 2014 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State.
It is also glaring that this defamation of character is suggestive of the desperation of the Fayemi administration and the APC leadership in Ekiti to manipulate the people and play on the collective intelligence of the members of the public with a view to gaining public sympathy despite their highly embarrassing criminal records in the last three years.
It is of public knowledge that Chief Jide Awe, the Interim APC Chairman in Ekiti State is currently facing a criminal trial at the law court for the political killings of Mr Ayo Jeje and Mrs Adewunmi in Erijiyan-Ekiti early this year while Hon. Kehinde Boluwade, an APC lawmaker and member of Ekiti State House of Assembly have just been remanded in prison custody alongside seven other members of the Fayemi killer squad for the cold-blooded murder of Mr Foluso Ogundare and for shooting Mrs Beatrice Ige, members of Ekiti Bibiire Coalition in Emure-Ekiti in October this year.
It is very disheartening that the so called ‘progressive’ Governor that at often times labelled the PDP as a ‘nest of killers’ is now the one masterminding the intimidation, harassment, brutalization and killing of innocent citizens as well as his real and perceived political enemies especially as witnessed in Ekiti State in the last three years.
It is even more appalling that the Fayemi administration that is widely seen by the people of Ekiti State as a jittery failure and a government of fascists and murderers is the one presently accusing innocent people like Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele of sponsoring assassination attempts against a notorious and unruly security aide in the same government, Deji Adesokan (Jaruu).
For the record, our man, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele is a man of impeccable character and sound moral pedigree, a man with clean records, a rare breed politician that takes exceptionto violence as a means for attaining power. His antecedents from his undergraduate days as a cerebral student leader up to his phenomenal rise to his present public stature speaks volume of his untainted moral standing and this explains why he can never be involved in such a dastardly act as portrayed by the blackmailers in the Fayemi administration.
We therefore use this medium to call on the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the State Security Service and other relevant security agencies in the country to properly investigate this matter and ensure that any one culpable of any breach of the law in the whole issue should be brought to book in earnest.
