Ekiti group berates APC over Saturday’s political meetings in Iyin despite shooting of MOB, others

Ekiti group berates APC over Saturday’s political meetings in Iyin
despite shooting of MOB, others

The Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has described the All Progressives
Congress (APC) meeting held at the residence of former Governor Niyi
Adebayo in Iyin Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government on Saturday,
as a demonstration of lack of regard for human lives.

The group challenged the police to make public the identity of the APC
chieftain, who brought the trigger happy policeman, who fired the
shots that hit Hon. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (MOB) and five others at
the party secretariat on Friday.

Spokesperson of the EJG, Akeem Adebomojo, said in a statement on
Sunday, that it was wrong for chieftains of the APC to have gathered
at Adebayo’s residence in Iyin-Ekiti to hold meeting on the July 14
governorship election despite that a prominent son of the town, Hon.
Opeyemi Bamidele, who was hit by bullets fired by one of the policemen
brought from Lagos by the party chieftains was still lying critically
at the hospital.

“How can they go to Iyin Ekiti yesterday to hold political meeting
while MOB is lying critically in the hospital? That is inhuman and a
clear show that whoever dies supporting APC is on his or her own,” the
group said.

The group said even if any meeting was to be held by the APC, it ought
to have been another location, not Iyin Ekiti, where Opeyemi Bamidele
hails from.

The EJG lamented that it was alarming that Barrister Kole Ajayi that
was first touted as the Director General of Fayemi’s Campaign
Organisation died mysteriously and Opeyemi Bamidele, who was to be
announced as the Director General was also hit by stray bullet on
Friday.

It said there was an ominous sign that Fayemi was not wanted in Ekiti,
hence the flow of blood at his campaign on Friday.