March 1, 2010
The former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has been linked with the murder of a First Class monarch in Ekiti State, the Attah of Aiyede, Oba Adeleye Orisagbemi. The Oba and the Acting Provost of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Dr Gabriel Olowoyo, were kidnapped at different locations last January. They were subsequently killed in an auto-crash.
Police investigators have declared Fayose as a person of interest based on the alleged confession of one of the kidnappers who was injured in the auto accident in which Oba Orisagbemi was killed.
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It would be recalled that towards the end of Fayose’s tenure as governor of Ekiti State, he was impeached by the House of Assembly. He is currently facing charges of corruption before a Federal High Court in Lagos. In addition, he is facing murder charges before the State High Court in Ado Ekiti, accused of killing one Tunde Omojola, an Ekiti indigene.
A suspect in the kidnapping saga, Patrick Charles Ovie, who is now recuperating at the National Hospital in Abuja, is reported to have confessed that Fayose sponsored the group to go after the monarch.
During his tenure, Fayose had previously abducted Oba Orisagbemi from his palace. He was taken to Ado-Ekiti and detained with criminals in a local police station. As Governor, Fayose opposed Orisagbemi’s installation as the Attah of Ayede, preferring his relative, Chief SA Brown aka Sambada, as the monarch.
There was a prolonged legal crisis over the Attah’s stool. Only recently, it was resolved at the Court of Appeal in favor of opponents of Oba Orishagbemi. Ovie reportedly confessed that the Oba was targeted for kidnapping because they wanted to prevent him from appealing that verdict.
Fayose who was expected to report to the Force CID headquarters in Abuja today, did not show up.
Today, he was reported by Lagos-based newspapers as having spent yesterday showing off in a helicopter all over the state of Lagos, trying to attract attention to a possible re-run for governor in Ekiti as candidate of the Labour Party.
Commenting on reports that the helicopter had also flown around the Ekiti State capital, the incumbent governor, Segun Oni, warned that the incident was a security risk, and that he would have ordered the craft to be shot down, but for the known absence in it at the time, of Fayose.
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Police investigators have declared Fayose as a person of interest based on the alleged confession of one of the kidnappers who was injured in the auto accident in which Oba Orisagbemi was killed.
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It would be recalled that towards the end of Fayose’s tenure as governor of Ekiti State, he was impeached by the House of Assembly. He is currently facing charges of corruption before a Federal High Court in Lagos. In addition, he is facing murder charges before the State High Court in Ado Ekiti, accused of killing one Tunde Omojola, an Ekiti indigene.
A suspect in the kidnapping saga, Patrick Charles Ovie, who is now recuperating at the National Hospital in Abuja, is reported to have confessed that Fayose sponsored the group to go after the monarch.
During his tenure, Fayose had previously abducted Oba Orisagbemi from his palace. He was taken to Ado-Ekiti and detained with criminals in a local police station. As Governor, Fayose opposed Orisagbemi’s installation as the Attah of Ayede, preferring his relative, Chief SA Brown aka Sambada, as the monarch.
There was a prolonged legal crisis over the Attah’s stool. Only recently, it was resolved at the Court of Appeal in favor of opponents of Oba Orishagbemi. Ovie reportedly confessed that the Oba was targeted for kidnapping because they wanted to prevent him from appealing that verdict.
Fayose who was expected to report to the Force CID headquarters in Abuja today, did not show up.
Today, he was reported by Lagos-based newspapers as having spent yesterday showing off in a helicopter all over the state of Lagos, trying to attract attention to a possible re-run for governor in Ekiti as candidate of the Labour Party.
Commenting on reports that the helicopter had also flown around the Ekiti State capital, the incumbent governor, Segun Oni, warned that the incident was a security risk, and that he would have ordered the craft to be shot down, but for the known absence in it at the time, of Fayose.
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