The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, who became the second politician in public office to personally break the news of a fathomed police humiliation and attacks of him and third People’s Democratic Party (PDP) politician to fall down on his own feigning serious illness, broke down in tears on Wednesday while accusing policemen of beating, shooting at him, and brutalising Peoples Democratic Party supporters in the state.
Fayose made the allegation in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital at a rally organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It will be recalled how Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye dramatized a purported experience he had with the Police when he said the Policemen taking him to Lokoja teargased him inside the same vehicle and he alone became so affected that he jumped out of the Police vehicle attempting to kill himself.
The next that happened about the controversial senator, who claimed he was asthma patient, was to put on neck hanger and remained on bed even when medical report first cleared of having no health issue.
Former National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh, had also fallen down in court of Justice Abang, who accused him of falling down on by himself feigning serious illness during an ongoing corruption trial.
The story about Police attacks on Governor Fayose, like Melaye, was broken only by Fayose and told by Fayose and the pictures of scene of attacks released by Fayose, which made his situation so pathetic.
On seeing the governor’s tweet earlier on Wednesday, The DEFENDER gathered from a source close to the Ekiti State Government House that there was no heavy shooting going in front of the Government House as claimed by the governor.
He even said what he was hearing was strange as, according to him, the only issue that occurred in the state capital same Wednesday was when some supporters of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) wanted to force themselves through a mounted security point to gain entrance into a pavilion not too far from the Government House for a rally that had no permit to do.
Attempt to disperse them, he said, led to shooting of teargas and that apart from that, there was no other shooting in the state capital as claimed by Governor Fayose.
But later in the day, Fayose addressing a PDP gathering, said, “They (the police) are beating anybody who has any sign of PDP on them. They are not picking our calls; they’ve made up their minds to do this evil.
“I am in pain, I am in severe pain. I can’t turn this neck anymore. If anything happens to me, the Inspector-General of Police should be held accountable,” the governor told reporters while crying at the rally.
Away from the Fayose’s drama however was the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of Operations, Mr Habila Joshak, who assured residents of Ekiti of a level playing ground during Saturday’s governorship election.
