Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), today maintained that it is untrue, reports that the convoy of the APC legislators of the Ekiti State House of Assembly killed a man at Efon Alaaye-Ekiti.Specifically, the party maintained that the report by the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, through his media aide, Lere Olayinka, alleging that the lawmakers’s convoy killed a man was, "A figment of his imagination and one in the series of media spins he had been using to mislead the people to get sympathy.”
Apparently reacting to social and electronic media reports as it touches on the purported killing, Wole Olujobi, Special Adviser on Media to impeached Speaker Adewale Omirin, argued that Olayinka was in a familiar terrain of mindless propaganda to mislead the public.
Olujobi equally posited that APC members could not have been responsible for the death of anyone in Efon Alaaye when they were turned back by soldiers in Itawure, a distance of not less than two kilometers from where the deceased was reportedly shot dead.
According to him, “The truth is that no one was killed. Nobody saw a dead body on the way up to Itawure junction, where the soldiers disallowed us to pass. Itawure junction is not the same as Efon-Alaaye, so we don’t know where he got his story.
“However, we heard that Fayose removed a dead body from the mortuary and presented it to Efon people, claiming that Honourable Folorunso Ogundele, a member of the House of Assembly and an indigene of Efon-Alaaye, was the one who pulled the trigger to kill a fellow Efon-Alaaye man in order to instigate violence in the town against him.
“For those who know Fayose very well, this story is typical of his rabble-rousing tactics to cause mob action against opponents. It is gratifying that the people were able to quickly decipher that Fayose was up to mischief to set brothers against brothers. Instead of losing our cool because of their strange behaviour, we just left the place.”
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