Stop Frustrating Moves to Prosecute Aluko, Fayose Tells FG

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Stop Frustrating Moves to Prosecute Aluko, Fayose Tells FG

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The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has called on the Federal Government (FG), to stop frustrating all efforts geared towards prosecuting the state’s former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tope Aluko for perjury. It would be recalled that Aluko had alleged that the June 21, 2014 governorship polls was rigged in favour of the PDP. Fayose in a statement through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti, argued that it was unbecoming of a government, which prides itself as clean, to use an agency of government to prevent somebody that has breached the law of the land from prosecution. The governor consequently made a demand, that the FG should desist from using the Department of State Security Service (DSS) to hinder another arm of government, the Judiciary, from trying Aluko for perjury. The statement reads, “To Aluko and his sponsors, he is a whistle-blower. One thing we are sure of is that the whistle will eventually explode on Aluko’s face as well as the faces of his sponsors. Aluko is the one who said he saw white and that the white has now turned black. Nigerians are demanding that he should be brought to the open to explain what he said. “He testified under oath at the tribunal, Appeal Court and even the Supreme Court and he came out again to recant. A vital arm of government, the Judiciary, issued a valid order for his arrest and prosecution and that was widely publicised”Ž, but surprisingly, the Federal Government is using the DSS to frustrate that by pretending to be interrogating him and shielding him from facing trial. “Democracy is hinged on separation of powers and the rule of law so that ”Žnobody or arm of government would become the all-in-all. Those who are in authority now should know that others have been there before them and if their predecessors had turned everything upside down, what would they have met. “If Aluko and his sponsors are sure of their allegation, let them release Aluko for trial in the open court. The people of Ekiti State who voted overwhelmingly for Ayodele Fayose and the PDP are ready to defend the mandate they freely gave. Every attempt they made to rubbish the mandate have always failed, including this Aluko’s plot and nobody should use an agent of the government to cover the shame some people willingly brought on themselves by chasing shadows.” 

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