APC urges ICC, NHCR to prosecute governor

The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Governor Ayo Fayose.

The party made the call via a statement released on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, by Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun.

The statement reads:

“Governor Fayose few weeks ago mobilised his supporters to confront the APC lawmakers who were coming to perform their legal duties in Ekiti State. He had earlier urged his supporters to defend his election with the last the drop of their blood.”

“In obedience to his order, his supporters in Efon stormed the security check-point and engaged the security agents who they perceived as paving the way for the APC lawmakers to enter the state. In the ensuing gunfire, Modupe Olaiya was shot dead.”

“In response, Fayose rented a woman to pose as the mother of the deceased to claim that an APC lawmaker shot Modupe dead. Few days later, the real mother of the deceased showed up, raising the alarm in the media that the impersonator was a woman leader of Fayose’s party. She accused the impersonator of taking government’s inducement to implicate an innocent man.”

Fayose however dismissed the APC’s claims and calls for his prosecution as ridiculous.

The governor has been involved in an impeachment battle with the APC lawmakers in the state despite a recent Supreme Court judgment affirming his victory in the June 2014 elections.