Perjury: We will Jail Aluko despite Apology to Fayose, Says Ekiti AG

Perjury: We will Jail Aluko despite Apology to Fayose, Says Ekiti AG

Apology won’t cleanse the tainted Fayose’s victory

In spite of the reconciliation between Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and the embattled Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Dr.

Tope Aluko, the state government has insisted that it won’t withdraw its perjury charges against the estranged secretary.

Also, the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Owoseeni Ajayi, has appealed to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to continue to guide President Muhammadu

Buhari, to forestall increasing human rights abuses and gross violation of court’s orders in the polity.

At a press conference in Ado Ekiti today, Ajayi said the state government won’t collapse the case of perjury it has instituted at an Ado Ekiti High Court, in spite of Aluko’s perceived reconciliation with Fayose.

The state government had instituted a case of perjury against Aluko shortly after open confession that the election that brought Fayose to government was massively rigged, after serving as the principal witness at the election petition tribunal.

The court had granted a warrant of arrest against Aluko, ordering the

State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Etop James, to arrest the embattled PDP

secretary for allegedly lying under oath.

Lampooning the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Solomon Arase, on his refusal to carry out the arrest as well as allegedly providing Aluko with security cover, Ajayi said the state would file for an order of mandamus, compelling the IG to carry out the order in due course.

According to him, “The Aluko’s apology to Fayose was  personal. We can’t take because of this interventionist apology collapse all our cases; government is not run that way.

“We can’t abandon our responsibilities as a state just because someone apologised to our governor on a case that was already pending in court. They are not fresh cases and we will pursue it to a logical

Conclusion.”

Ajayi urged the Attorney General of the Federation to counsel the federal government on the alleged brazen impunity being exhibited by the Department of State Services(DSS) and abuse of court orders by the security agency.

He said the case involving the arrest of a member of House of

Assembly, Hon Afolabi Akanni, vividly conveyed a signal of alleged impunity in the system, appealing to the AGF to advise Buhari’s government to take prompt action to prevent the country from sliding into anarchy.