Ekiti guber: PDP presidential aspirant cautions Federal Government, security agencies over pre-election violence

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- Ekiti state has witnessed unprecedented violence in the last 48 hours and this has raised concerns in the polity

- The state has been under siege by security agents drafted to maintain peace

- A leading presidential aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for caution by all stakeholders

A leading PDP presidential aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki (SAN) has condemned the violence that has characterised the forthcoming Ekiti state governorship election.

Turaki specifically condemned the alleged attacks on the Governor Ayodele Fayose and the law-abiding citizens of the state who he noted, were trying to exercise their fundamental right of freedom of association in a peaceful manner.

In a statement sent to NAIJ.com, the Kebbi-born politician lamented that the Ekiti saga was another low point in the litany of breaches of the constitution and rule of law which he said has become the hallmark of the APC-led federal government.

“Imagine a governor who has constitutional immunity and is also supposed to be the Chief Security Officer of his state being brutalized by security officers. His security details are being withdrawn while movement into his official residence is being restricted. What then is the hope of the ordinary Nigerian?” he asked.

Turaki recalled that a similar ‘jungle’ treatment was meted out to the Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state in the past and the gestapo approach adopted in arresting some revered judges of the Supreme Court on mere allegations.

This attitude, he said, is consistent with the continued intimidation and harassment of leaders of the opposition party, the PDP especially.

He reminded Nigerians of his consistent warnings that the APC is entrenching a legacy of despotism, intimidation, harassment of persons or groups not sharing its views, nepotism, insecurity and poverty on the people.

“Here is a government that talks ill of its citizens at will, thereby lowering their estimation in the eyes of the international community,” he regretted.

He warned that Nigeria’s democracy faces serious danger unless men and women of goodwill with the support of the international community rise to defend constitutional rule in Nigeria.

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Meanwhile, the deputy Senate leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, on Tuesday, July 10, said the 30,000 police personnel deployed to Ekiti state for the July 14 governorship election was unacceptable.

Na’Allah, an All Progressives Congress (APC) senator from Kebbi state wondered why large number of policemen should be deployed for an election when the authorities could not deploy 10,000 policemen to secure the lives of people in Zamfara state, who have been attacked by bandits in recent times.

The senator, who was speaking while leading the debate on his bill that sought to repeal the Police Act and re-enact the Police Reform, said such action was not part of the APC manifesto.

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