The Ekiti State Government has said the former Secretary of the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Tope Aluko, will still be prosecuted for alleged perjury.
The position of the state government comes two days after a purported truce meeting between Aluko and Governor Ayo Fayose.
Aluko, on Tuesday, however, denied any truce meeting with Fayose.
He said what happened on Sunday was organised propaganda.
The Ekiti State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Owoseni Ajayi, said the state government will not withdraw the case of perjury it instituted at an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court against Aluko, who had alleged the manipulation of the election that produced Fayose.
Ajayi said: “We believed Aluko’s evidence was credible enough, as our principal witness during the governorship election petition, to sustain our case and gave us victory, right from the election petition tribunal to the Supreme Court.
“We can’t because of this interventionist apology collapse all our cases.
“Government is not run that way.
“We can’t abandon our responsibilities as a state just because someone apologised to our governor on a case that was already pending in court.
“They are not fresh cases and we will pursue them to a logical conclusion.”
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