Four escaped inmates in Ekiti Government House.

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti
State has accused Governor Ayodele
Fayose of complicity in the Sunday
night gunmen attack on Federal Prison,
Ado-Ekiti.
The party alleged that four of the about
300 inmates that escaped from the
Prison were sighted in Ekiti State
Government House.
It maintained that the allegation had
confirmed its suspicion that the attack
was an orchestrated plan to free
criminals friendly with the government
to unleash them on the opponents.
But Fayose in a counter-allegation
urged the people to ignore the APC for
its “fabricated lies.”
He said rather, the people should hold
APC responsible for the attack
because it was the party that was
providing shelter for some of the
escapees.
The APC in a statement by its Publicity
Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said
“Today, Ekiti people have information
that four of the escapees, including a
notorious criminal and a serial rapist
that participated in attacking Fayose’s
opponents during his first stint, are
being lodged in the chalets behind the
Presidential Lodge in the Government
House.
“The unfolding drama confirmed APC’s
outcry that a killer squad is being
raised for attacks on opponents.”
The APC urged security agents to
comb the Presidential lodge of the
Government House to re-arrest the
escapees quartered there.
It posited that alleged conflicting
reports by the governor and his
Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, on the cause of the attack
confirmed its suspicion of the state
government.
Olatunbosun maintained that the
attack was an orchestrated plan to free
criminals friendly with the government
to unleash them on the opponents as
suspicion of alleged killer squad in
Ekiti State grew.
“If the jail break was an attempt by
APC to free Adedipe, why did Adedipe
report himself to the police and
subsequently surrendered himself to
the prisons authorities without being
declared wanted? If the jail break is to
kill Niyi Adedipe as alleged by Lere
Olayinka, Why was he not killed?
“We have raised issues on the
reasons why Fayose specifically
demanded the police authorities in
Abuja to post back to Ekiti State some
of the police officers that worked with
him during his first stint.
“These officers formed the core of the
killler squad that were indicted by the
SSS panel set up by President
Olusegun Obasanjo. It is the same
officers that are back today in Ekiti
State after a special request that they
be reposted to Ekiti State.
“We are not surprised that the local
content of this crime ring is being re-
activated by releasing them from jail
for maximum results and we are
calling the attention of Nigerians and
lovers of peace and security around
the world that the merchants of death
are back in Ekiti State to terrorise the
people of Ekiti State.
“We can now see why security vote
for security agents’ to fight crimes
has been reduced while personal
security vote for the governor has
doubled.”
But Fayose, who reacted through his
Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi,
to the allegations, said nobody will
take APC serious for the latest
allegations it had just made.
He said, “They are known for
fabricating lies. They are doing this
for face saving. Their allegations that
four of the escapees are in the
government house is so funny to us.
Rather, some of the escapees are in
the APC custody.
“The APC knows where the criminals
are; they want to divert the attention of
the public from their criminal
tendencies. The people of Ekiti State
know that the APC is behind the attack
on the prison.
“The APC collaborated with some
people inside the prison whom they
have already compromised. What the
Governor and Lere said are the same.
The Governor only shed more light on
how the APC connived with some
people inside the prison to carry out
the attack.”