The impeachment plot against Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose assumed a new dimension yesterday with the governor urging Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba to investigate the killing of a protester, Modupe Olaiya on Tuesday. This is even as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) threw its weight behind Fayose.
Olaiya was killed when Speaker Adewale Omirin, was leading 18 other All Progressives Congress (APC) members to Ekiti to continue the impeachment plot, aborted by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) loyalists. Mother of the deceased, Mrs Agbeke Olaiya, yesterday revealed how she lost her 32-year-old son. She is demanding justice.
She and Olaiya’s widow, Yinka, were at the Government House, Ado- Ekiti, wailing over their loss. Madam Olaiya said: “My son was 32-year-old. It happened at Fabo, at Efon Alaye’s Junction on the way to Ijebu-Ijesha. I was told a serving APC member of the House of Assembly shot him. He is an indigene of Efon.
“They said he was coming with some Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), members from Lagos. They made a detour in Osun, but they were coming to Ekiti through Ijebu-Ijesha…”
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