Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni, Dr Kayode Fayemi trade accusations over security report

Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni

Dr. Kayode Fayemi

By Odunayo Ogunmola

Here is no let-up in the face-off between Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni and the Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate, Dr Kayode Fayemi.

The government yesterday accused Fayemi of recruiting an agent of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to produce a "fake security report on the state."

But the AC denied the allegation, saying it was borne out of frustration of government to sell falsehood to the judiciary and the public.

The government had alleged that Fayemi hired the FBI agent to generate the report on "the security implications of the likely outcome of his petition against the election of Governor Segun Oni."

The statement reads: "We wish to alert the Federal Government, the Nigerian public, Government of the USA and the international community of the latest clandestine plot of the AC and its governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to hoodwink security agencies, in Nigeria, USA and United Kingdom (UK) into believing that Ekiti State would be thrown into chaos should the Election Petitions Tribunal judgment go against Fayemi and the AC.

"...An agent of the FBI, has been recruited to carry out this dastardly assignment and he has already been mobilised to the tune of N15 million. He is expected to generate various negative security reports on Ekiti State in the next two weeks and feed the FBI with them. The security reports are also to be made available to the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the State Security Service (SSS), Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) and the National Security Adviser (NSA) in Nigeria."

But AC, through Fayemi’s Campaign Organisation, said the state government under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was suffering from "political hallucination."

The statement by the Head, Media and Publicity of the organisation, Mr. Yemi Adaramodu, said: "No one needs an FBI report to convince the world that Ekiti PDP rag tag regime has been rejected by the pauperised Ekiti people and the traumatised and unpaid workers whose wages have been used to provide dinner for the PDP fat cats.

"It is the PDP that is known for all sorts of crooked arrangements to achieve an end but would first accuse others of doing same. Dr. Fayemi did not recruit any FBI agent and could not have done so for any reason," it said.

Meanwhile, the Integrity Youths Movements (IYM) Nigeria has warned the Ekiti State Government to stop making attempts on the lives of Dr Fayemi and his running mate, Mrs Funmi Olayinka.

This was contained in a statement by the group’s National President, Dr Tayo Komolafe, after its state congress meeting in Abuja at the weekend.

The meeting was attended by representatives from 36 states.

IYM said: "We are sincerely warning the (Ekiti) state government …that any further attempt or attack on the duo, either in the state or outside Ekiti State, will not be taken lightly by all youth coalitions in the country."

The group said it had petitioned the Presidency and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo on the matter.

It said: "It is prerogative for us to act very fast and alert the nation about another plot to lead the nation into mourning and anarchy, even as the nation is yet to unravel the mystery behind the deaths of Engineer Funsho Williams in Lagos and Dipo Dina in Ogun State."

The group stressed that it alerted the nation to avoid shedding the blood of more innocent citizens when previous cases have not been solved.

It said: "We respectfully call on the Presidency and the IGP not to treat lightly the case of Mr. Femi Olarewaju, alias Ijakoko, who was alleged to have collected N3.5million to recruit militants in the state, arm them for many killing jobs."

Source: www.thenationonlineng.net

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