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The Ekiti State government has reacted to a statement by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, branding the state governor, Ayodele Fasoye a security risk, insisting that the APC is the real threat to the security of Nigeria and it’s people.

The state government, stated this on Tuesday throught the Special Assistant to the Ekiti State Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, saying the major threat to national security is a party that lost election since June 21, 2014 and still trying to get back to power, using crude means including turning itself to the mouthpiece of the Department of State Services, DSS.

Olayinka said: “It is only in Nigeria that a party that ran Ekiti State aground in four years and was rejected in six straight elections by the people can still be talking.

“The question that Nigerians must ask the APC Spokesperson in Ekiti State, Taiwo Olatunbosun is whether he now doubles as the DSS spokesperson.

“In the last three weeks, everything the APC speculated that the DSS was going to do was exactly what the security agency did and that has reinforced the belief that the DSS was working in collaboration with the APC in Ekiti State to destabilise the Fayose-led government.

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“It is also a fact that the chairman of APC in Ekiti State, Chief Jide Awe who is standing trial for murder was hosted to a dinner in the Presidential Villa while TKO Aluko on whose bench warrant was issued for alleged perjury is going about with armed security men.”

According to Olayinka, no organisation is qualified as a threat to the security of Nigeria other than the APC that was compromising major government institutions, including DSS such that functionaries of the party were now the ones telling the security agency who to arrest and detain indefinitely in Ekiti State.

Continuing, Olayinka said it is only a party that remained mute when over 400 Agatus and their farmlands destroyed is qualified to be branded a threat to national security.

“Or what should Nigeria call a party that caused the murder of over 20 Nigerians, including a Youth Corp member in Bayelsa and Rivers States just because of their desperation to win elections?

“When you try to truncate democratically elected government, deny Nigerians rights to fair hearing by detaining them indefinitely and disobey court orders, while also failing to conduct free and fair elections, what is such a government inviting other than breakdown of law and order? And what should such a party in power be called other than security threat to Nigeria?”

Olayinka further advised the leaders of APC in Ekiti State, especially former Governor Kayode Fayemi to stop falling prey to political 419ers, whom he insisted were collecting millions of Naira from them on the pretext that they are helping them to fight Governor Faye.

“The APC leaders should ask themselves what result they have achieved since they started investing their money in this ‘Fayose must go’ agenda immediately after they were defeated in the entire 16 Local Councils in the State.

“Instead of lavishing millions of Naira on TKO Aluko and others, they should rather use such money to empower the remnants of their party members in Ekiti State who are in dire need of financial help.”

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