From Wole Balogun, Ado Ekiti
EKITI State Governor, Mr .Ayodele Fayose, has said the Federal Government should not shield Mr Tope Aluko from facing trial over his allegation that the June 21, 2014 governorship poll in the state was rigged in his favour and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi yesterday, said it was unbecoming of a government, which prides itself as clean, to use an agency of government to prevent somebody that has breached the law of the land from prosecution.
He demanded that the Federal Government should not use the Department of State Services (DSS) from preventing another arm of government, the judiciary, from trying Aluko for perjury.
Fayose said the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government should, immediately, allow relevant agencies of government to try Aluko for perjury.
“To Aluko and his sponsors, he is a whistle-blower, One thing we are sure of is that the whistle will eventually explode on Aluko’s face as well as the faces of his sponsors. Aluko is the one who said he saw white and that the white has now turned black. Nigerians are demanding that he should be brought to the open to explain how what he said and maintained up to the Supreme Court level has changed.
“He testified under oath at the tribunal, Appeal Court and even the Supreme Court and he came out again to recant. A vital arm of government, the judiciary, issued a valid order for his arrest and prosecution and that was widely publicised.
Two weeks ago, Aluko told newsmen how the election was rigged in favour of Fayose, countering an earlier testimony before a panel that PDP won the election fair and square.
Last week, a Magistrate Court ordered the Commissioner of Police to arrest Aluko over alleged perjury.
Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye gave the order upon a motion of ex-parte number M A D / 1 0 c m / 2 0 1 6 , filed by the Ekiti State Government against Aluko and the state’s Commissioner of Police, pursuant to Section 117 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C16, law of Ekiti State 2012, Section 79 of the Ekiti State Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2014 and Section 23 (D) of the Magistrates’ Court Law 2014.
In the motion, which was filed and moved by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mr. Gbemiga Adaramola, an order of the court was sought to issue warrant of arrest against Aluko to be executed by the police commissioner for the purpose of committing him (Aluko) for trial for the offence of perjury.
Chief Magistrate Adegboye said the order was granted as a means for the first defendant (Aluko) to attend the court for defence.
A lawyer, Mr. Sunday Olowolafe, calling for the prosecution of Mr. Aluko for alleged perjury, premised the matter upon an application to the state attorney general.
Aluko has since filed a suit in court against the warrant.
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