Alleged DSS invasion of Ekiti Assembly: Is Buhari jittery over Fayose?

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has alleged of a plot by the Muhammadu Buhari-led adminstration to destabilise the state under Ayodele Fayose.

The 26 members of the house also alleged that armed operatives suspected to be officials of the Department of State Security (DSS) stormed the house on Friday and abducted 4 members.

They also alleged that the moves were part of plans to intimidate them into impeaching Governor Fayose, raisng posers among political analyst as to whether the government is getting jittery over the criticisms by Fa has over the last few months positioned himself as the voice of the opposition, and a thorn in the flesh of government, criticising virtually every move and policy of the Buhari administration.

But the Ekiti Assembly members have vowed that no amount of harassment from the Buhari-led Federal Government would make them submit to the alleged plan to use them to impeach Fayose.

The lawmakers, reacting to the alleged invasion, stated that there is a “… clandestine plot by the Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government to destabilise the Ekiti State Government, using the Department of State Service (DSS).”

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Speaker of the House, Rt Honourable Kolawole Oluwawole, in a statement said that: “More than 10 DSS men, armed to the teeth, invaded the Assembly Complex, shooting sporadically into the air, thereby causing panic among members and staff of the House of Assembly, who had to scamper to safety.

“At the end of the commotionhe end of the commotion, we discovered that four of our members could not be found. “ It was only this morning that we were able to establish that Hon Afolabi Akanni, representing Efon Constituency, was abducted and taken to Abuja.

The whereabouts of three other members remain unknown as we speak, and reasons for the invasion and abduction of our members are not known”.

According to Oluwawole, “The plot is to harass, intimidate and embarrass top officials of the Ayodele Fayose government because of the governor’s critical stance on the Buhari’s government.
“We are aware that 18 of our members have been pencilled down for harassment and the game plan is to harass them to submission, with a view to coercing them into signing an already prepared notice of impeachment of the governor and his deputy.”

Meanwhile, Fayose in a statement on Sunday by Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said he cannot be intimidated by APC led Federal Government “clandestine agenda of truncating democracy in Ekiti State and other PDP controlled States like Rivers and Bayelsa.”

Fayose said: “If Buhari likes, let him relocate all DSS men in Nigeria with the entire ammunitions in their armoury to Ekiti, the will of Ekiti people can never be broken. They will only try, and like they have always done, they will fail because dictatorship has never triumphed over the people. Even Buhari’s dictatorship between 1984 and 1985 ended one day and Nigerians will also outlive his present dictatorship.”

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