– The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives members denounced the invasion of the State House of Assembly by the operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS)
– They also desribed the governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose as the emerging face of opposition politics in Nigeria
Six members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives from Ekiti State have described last Friday’s intrusion of the Assembly complex by officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) as “criminal desecration of the scared hallowed chamber which must be condemned by all lovers of democracy in the world.”
Among them are Kehinde Agboola (Ekiti North I), Thaddeus Aina (Ekiti North II), Ayo Oladimeji (Ekiti Central I), Olamide Oni (Ekiti Central II), Segun Adekola (Ekiti South I) and Akin Awodumila (Ekiti South II).
Idignant at the DSS actions backed by President Muhammadu Buhari the lawmakers wrote: “Any attempt to muscle opposition in a democracy is a direct invitation to anarchy. We condemn in strong terms, last Friday’s invasion of the Ekiti State House of Assembly complex and we call on other lovers of democracy in the country to rise against this emerging tyranny which is threatening to jeopardize democratic governance in the country.
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Most importantly, we wish to state expressly that the DSS under President Buhari is becoming an instrument of political oppression, such that the agency has abandoned its constitutional responsibilities in pursuit of matters that should be handled by the police and other security agencies. For instance, what is the business of the DSS with election funding? Is the DSS now INEC, EFCC or ICPC? Is the DSS the police that it is now arresting people for mere political disagreements?
We even read that the DSS is investigating academic qualifications of some members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly and political appointees and we don’t understand the relationship between the internal security of Nigeria that the DSS is to protect and academic qualifications of political appointees.
The constitutional mandate of the DSS is security matters and intelligence gathering for the protection of senior government officials like the President, Vice President, Governors, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and others. When did DSS become investigators of financial crimes and election disputes?
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We therefore wish to warn that Ekiti State should not be included in the comity of PDP controlled States that the APC led Federal Government intends to destabilise because the people, who overwhelmingly elected Ayodele Fayose as their governor are always ready to defend their choice. “We also wish to express our solidarity with the State House of Assembly and the 26 PDP members. They should know that they are not alone in this battle to sustain democracy in Ekiti State. We are with them.”
The governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, known for his dislike of current Buhari-led administration, also harshly criticized the recent storm saying: “If Buhari likes, let him relocate all DSS men in Nigeria with the entire ammunition in their armoury to Ekiti, the will of Ekiti people can never be broken. They will only try, and like they have always done, they will fail because dictatorship has never triumphed over the people. Even Buhari’s dictatorship between 1984 and 1985 ended one day and Nigerians will also outlive his present dictatorship.”
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