APC condemns alleged assassination attempt on Omirin

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has condemned Monday night’s alleged attempt on the life of embattled Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin.

Omirin was allegedly on Monday night saved by a good Samaritan ‎who called his associates to break the news of attempted murder in a house where the speaker was visiting.

Quick and rapid calls to the speaker and the police saved the day.

The attackers allegedly fled when they heard police sirens racing to the scene.

Reacting to the botched attempt, the Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatubosun, said in a statement in Ado-Ekiti that the incident confirmed the alarm the party had raised recently on the activities of strange faces in unmarked black jeeps that have been visiting the homes of APC lawmakers at nights to attack them.

Olatubosun urged the police and the Department of State Service to investigate the matter to get to the root of the men in black jeeps that have been on the trail of APC lawmakers of late.

The statement said: “We once raised the alarm that men in unmarked black jeeps visited the homes of the Deputy Speaker, Adetunji Orisalade‎; and two members representing Ikere Local Government, Hon Yomi Daramola and Hon Sunday Adu Clement same night banging at their doors. Few days later, the same jeeps with unidentified men visited the homes of Hon Peter Agidi and Hon Folorunso Ogundele with ‘police’ invitation letters for ‘interaction’.

“Upon clarification from the police on the veracity of the invitation for ‘interaction”‘, the Police Command said such invitation did not emanate from the State Headquarters and should be ignored. This prompted our party to petition the National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) on the activities of the policemen in the Government House security team who were in 2006 indicted by the President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Presidential Security Report on Political Killings in Ekiti State‎.

“In the petition, we called Dasuki’s attention to a special request by Governor Ayo Fayose to redeploy these indicted police officers to the state to join his security team. Specifically, we listed Gbenga Timothy Joseph, who is now Fayose’s ADC‎, as one of the policemen recommended for criminal trial by Obasanjo’s security panel. Today, he and other indicted officers operate in Ekiti in the security team of the governor.”

Olatunbosun called the attention of the police and DSS to the threats to the members and media aide of Omirin, Wole Olujobi,‎ in the current House of Assembly crisis.

He said Governor Ayo Fayose should be held responsible for any untoward incident against them.