Engineer Kayode Ojo, a frontline member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, has frowned at the arrest of members of the Party who are his followers when they were holding their weekly meeting at Igede-Ekiti by members of the Ekiti State Police Command.
In a statement by his media aide, Alhaji Deji Aiyelabowo, Engineer Ojo said two of the Party members who are his followers and loyalists of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the Party were arrested by the Police under the guise of involvement in armed robbery attempt in the town and subsequently whisked away to the Police Headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, where they are still being held.
According to Engineer Kayode Ojo, the two men including other members were at the meeting venue when some people came in to accost them to demand for reason why their vehicles were parked on the road to prevent free flow of traffic and, before anybody could say Jack Robinson, policemen from the Ekiti State Command had invaded the venue of the meeting, and arrested the two of the Party members and tagged them as armed robbery gang and took them away.
Engineer Kayode Ojo drew reference to a similar occurence at Ikoro-Ekiti about three months ago when the Party Ward Chairman and two others were arrested in the town at the middle of the night alleging similar offence and took them to Ado-Ekiti for detention at the Headquarters of the RRS where they were detained for days and eventually released after nothing incriminating was found in their possession.
With this development again, Engineer Ojo is appealing to the Inspector General of Police to prevail on the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police from allowing his men to embark on embarrassing and incessant invasion and arrests of his Party members on trump up charges while holding their meetings as allowed by the country’s constitution.
He called on the inspector General of Police to address the issue of politically motivated arrests of his Party members of the Party in the State to safe the people from constant unwsrtanted embarrassments.
