...Ask Buhari to order release of arrested members
Members of the Ekiti state House of Assembly on Thursday stormed Abuja
the federal capital territory and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to
direct the Department of State Services (DSS) to release four of their
members detained by the service since last Friday.
The DSS operatives had reportedly invaded the state House of Assembly
complex in Ado Ekiti and whisked away the four members to Abuja and
said to be acting on the order from above.
Briefing newsmen at the National Assembly complex in Abuja, the
Chairman, Ekiti House Committee on Information, Honourable Gboyega
Aribisogan, said the call for the president to direct the release of
the detained legislators has become imperative because the DSS would
not embark on such action without presidential approval.
According to him, "Like we have maintained plotters of evil against
the government of Ayodele Fayose and by extension the people of Ekiti
State will not get our support.
"We, members of the State House of Assembly are prepared to spend the
rest of our tenure in DSS cell, instead of plotting against our leader
and mentor, Governor Ayodele Fayose", he maintained.
Speaking further, he said that, "Gone are those days in Nigeria when
impeachment notices against governors were signed on the table of the
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and
this time around, if the DSS is programmed to play the role played by
the EFCC under former President Obasanjo, it will fail".
"Also, if this harassment and intimidation is about 2018, we wish to
state unequivocally that we in the PDP are fully on ground in Ekiti.
We are not playing diaspora politics as being done by the APC and
Nigerians should be rest assured that the APC will be defeated once
again".
"We won't be intimidated by any agency of the Federal Government, the
DSS inclusive.
"We have also been told that some of us have been slated for arrest
and detention and it is on this note that we have come to inquire from
the DSS those of us they still want to arrest so that we can turn
ourselves in without giving them the stress of coming down to Ekiti.
"The DSS can also go ahead and publish the names of our members that
they want to arrest so that we will know who among us to bring to
Abuja.
"Alternatively, the DSS can keep the entire 26 members of the Ekiti
State House of Assembly in their custody for as long as they desire so
that it will be easy for them to call anyone of us for questioning at
any time of the day", he stated.
Members of the Ekiti state House of Assembly on Thursday stormed Abuja
the federal capital territory and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to
direct the Department of State Services (DSS) to release four of their
members detained by the service since last Friday.
The DSS operatives had reportedly invaded the state House of Assembly
complex in Ado Ekiti and whisked away the four members to Abuja and
said to be acting on the order from above.
Briefing newsmen at the National Assembly complex in Abuja, the
Chairman, Ekiti House Committee on Information, Honourable Gboyega
Aribisogan, said the call for the president to direct the release of
the detained legislators has become imperative because the DSS would
not embark on such action without presidential approval.
According to him, "Like we have maintained plotters of evil against
the government of Ayodele Fayose and by extension the people of Ekiti
State will not get our support.
"We, members of the State House of Assembly are prepared to spend the
rest of our tenure in DSS cell, instead of plotting against our leader
and mentor, Governor Ayodele Fayose", he maintained.
Speaking further, he said that, "Gone are those days in Nigeria when
impeachment notices against governors were signed on the table of the
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and
this time around, if the DSS is programmed to play the role played by
the EFCC under former President Obasanjo, it will fail".
"Also, if this harassment and intimidation is about 2018, we wish to
state unequivocally that we in the PDP are fully on ground in Ekiti.
We are not playing diaspora politics as being done by the APC and
Nigerians should be rest assured that the APC will be defeated once
again".
"We won't be intimidated by any agency of the Federal Government, the
DSS inclusive.
"We have also been told that some of us have been slated for arrest
and detention and it is on this note that we have come to inquire from
the DSS those of us they still want to arrest so that we can turn
ourselves in without giving them the stress of coming down to Ekiti.
"The DSS can also go ahead and publish the names of our members that
they want to arrest so that we will know who among us to bring to
Abuja.
"Alternatively, the DSS can keep the entire 26 members of the Ekiti
State House of Assembly in their custody for as long as they desire so
that it will be easy for them to call anyone of us for questioning at
any time of the day", he stated.
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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