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Group Urges Arase To Protect Aluko Over Alleged Threat To Life
A socio-political group within the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in
Ekiti State, Ekiti Reformer Movement, has called on the Inspector
General of Police, Solomon Arase, to ensure protection for the party
State Secretary, Dr Tope Aluko, over allegation of fake security men
posing as policemen to arrest the party scribe on the order of the
police authorities.
In a statement by its spokesman, Idowu Olaleye, the group said Aluko’s
allegation was real, as fake policemen actually stormed Channels
office to arrest the party leader on the purported order of the
Inspector General of Police while he was on a live programme on
Sunday.
The group urged Fayose to answer posers on how he got INEC soft copies
that he said he printed to win his election and tell Nigerians the
election results he said he collated in Efon-Alaaye two days to the
governorship election as he himself revealed in the Sagir Koli tape
instead of sending attackers against his opponents.
The group added that it once raised the alarm that Fayose allegedly
kept a killers squad, noting that the visit of the strange men to
arrest Aluko was a confirmation of its alarm, particularly when the
police authorities denied knowledge of any order to arrest Aluko
inside the Channels studio.
“Fayose is following the trend during his campaigns when he raised
killers squad in search of opposition members, even within his own
party, for attack.
“He did it to APC lawmakers when men in hoods in umarked black jeeps
visited their homes and delivered letters purportedly inviting them by
the police. But upon seeking to confirm the invitation by the
lawmakers, the then Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, said he
never authorised any invitation,” he explained.
Olaleye urged Arase to order transfer of the policemen working for the
governor to attack opponents, saying their activities since Fayose’s
first term had left Ekiti State in the state of fear.
“Some policemen that helped Fayose during his first term to raise a
killers squad and were later posted out of Ekiti State after the
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s security panel on politically-motivated
killings in Ekiti State indicted them have been reposted to Ekiti
State on Fayose’s special request approved by former Inspector General
of Police.
“Today, some of the indicted policemen, including Gbenga Joseph and
Usman Shaba, are back in Fayose’s service helping him to attack
opponents as seen during the last governorship and parliamentary
elections.
“Gbenga Timothy Joseph, a mobile police officer that was recently
promoted by the police, is still working for Fayose, even though his
new rank should have moved him from functioning as a bodyguard.
“This mobile police officer that should always appear in his uniform
follows Fayose everywhere he goes in mufti in order to hide his
identity,” he explained.
The group also raised the alarm over alleged attempt to tamper with
Aluko’s records at his former place of work at the Ekiti State
University, saying the motive was to doctor the former lecturer’s file
to incriminate him for prosecution.
He counselled the Chairman of the University Governing Council, Prince
Dayo Adeyeye, to stay clear of attempt to criminally tamper with
Aluko’s records, saying the legal consequences of such illegal action
would be grave.
Calling on the police to protect Aluko’s properties allegedly targeted
for attacks by Fayose’s men, Olaleye urged Arase to investigate
Fayose’s security aides over their alleged attack on the opposition
and the latest attempt to illegally attack Aluko in Lagos and his
properties in Ekiti State.
Idowu Olaleye
