The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has berated Governor Ayodele Fayose for the arrest of students’ leaders who participated in the campaign rally of the party’s presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in the state on Saturday.
According to the opposition party, the National Vice-President, External, National Association of Nigerian Students, Tosin Ogunkuade, has been arrested on the order of the governor for addressing the crowd during Buhari campaign in the state on Saturday.
A statement by the APC state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said Ogunkuade’s offence was that the student leader highlighted the challenges facing the Nigerian students, saying the present government was not capable of addressing the hardships being faced by the students in accessing quality education.
“He said to the applause of hundreds of students in attendance that Buhari presented a better hope for students in their educational pursuits,” Olatubosun said.
But Fayose said that those arrested were the APC thugs caught with dangerous weapons and recruited by one APC member in the House of Representatives to terrorise supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Erijiyan and Ikogosi-Ekiti.
Olatubosun said thugs trailed Ogunkuade to Ikogosi-Ekiti just 24 hours after he spoke, “where he and other students were seriously injured after they were attacked with machet and other dangerous weapons.
“After these students were attacked at Ikogosi, they ran to Efon-Alaye Police Station to report the matter. To our surprise, the police detained them before they were transferred to Aramoko-Ekiti Police Station.
“To our shock again, just this morning, one of their colleagues, Damilare Bewaji, who went to visit them at the Aramoko Police Station, was also arrested and detained by the police on the order of the governor,” he added.
Olatunbosun described the arrest as one in the series of other attacks on the APC sympathisers and supporters after Saturday’s campaign.
“Just this morning, the home of a former Commissioner for Finance under Governor Kayode Fayemi, Dapo Kolawole, escaped being razed on the order of the governor.
“His offence was that he pasted the APC flags and posters of the party’s candidates on his building and Fayose does not want to see these posters on his way to Ijurin where he is billed to install the Oba of the town. The thugs shot at Mr. Kolawole’s compound as well as that of his father, Pa Kolawole.
“It is curious that the students, who were the complainants, are now being turned into the accused, as the police are being forced to slam criminal charges against the innocent students.”
The APC spokesman urged the police to stop being partisan in the handling of political crisis in the state while he reminded the governor that he did not have the monopoly of violence.
However, Fayose in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, announced that four APC thugs had been arrested by the police.
“The thugs were arrested with guns, axes, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons while trying to escape through Efon-Alaaye at about 3am today.
“The thugs were Odebunmi Idowu (from Ilupeju-Ekiti), Aliyu Yusuf (from Ibadan), Oladayo Obikoya (from Ikogosi) and Ogunkuade Oluwatosin (a.k.a Jasper).
“They were arrested in a red-coloured Nissan Sunny with registration number Ekiti AH 176 EFY, and were moved to the Aramoko-Ekiti Police Station, where they were detained briefly before they were moved to the Police Headquarters, Ado-Ekiti,” the statement said.

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Fayose should remember that at the end of the day he is just one man and it is red blood that flows in his veins.

First to do no dey pain ooo.

You Dont wanna mess with students...

This guy don't learn from the past,ur pankere still dey

I'm not in support of the arrest but for the student leader to say Buhari represents a better hope for students shows the student leader is bereft of the knowledge of common history of Nigeria.

1. Buhari banned NANS.

2. Buhari banned freedom of expression. Vocal journalists and critics were imprisoned.

3. Buhari stopped subsidized meals in the universities.

4. Buhari banned NMA

5. Buhari never built a single primary school not to talk of secondary school or university in his two years in power.

Is that a kind of person that represents hope to the students? SMH in disappointment.

U just imagine how some people think,imagine this union leader addressing students and telling them that Buhari is better hope for their academic future,surely this guy must be a dwarft and should be reminded in police custody untill he realize he has to vote for Jonathan and be ordered to organise those students again and tell them to vote for GEJ

nationwide1:
I'm not in support of the arrest but for the student leader to say Buhari represents a better hope for students shows the student leader is bereft of the knowledge of common history of Nigeria.

1. Buhari banned NANS.

2. Buhari banned freedom of expression. Vocal journalists and critics were imprisoned.

3. Buhari stopped subsidized meals in the universities.

4. Buhari banned NMA

5. Buhari never built a single primary school not to talk of secondary school or university in his two years in power.

Is that a kind of person that represents hope to the students? SMH in disappointment.

But i guess schools were still in section? How many months did universities stayed on strike befor they called off? Howmany months did poly stayed and how long did colleges stayed? I guess Goodluck has not banned anything but rather improved the swags of strike and delay we ordinary nigerians who parents can not pay for private uni's,i would have graduated long ago if nt for all the mannerless strike.


I know you not an illiterate. Talk with caution and stop seeing faults from one corner.

Fayose just behaves like a primary school kid. He needs to go for mental checkup because his attitude dis days is questionable

blazesam:
But i guess schools were still in section? How many months did universities stayed on strike befor they called off? Howmany months did poly stayed and how long did colleges stayed? I guess Goodluck has not banned anything but rather improved the swags of strike and delay we ordinary nigerians who parents can not pay for private uni's,i would have graduated long ago if nt for all the mannerless strike.


I know you not an illiterate. Talk with caution and stop seeing faults from one corner.

I'm saying it as it is. I discover that youths who support Buhari don't know anything about Buhari apart from the one they have been brainwashed with that he is 'spotless' and 'holy' and worst still most of the youths won't read to find out facts for themselves. I pity this generation.

nationwide1:
I'm saying it as it is. I discover that youths who support Buhari don't know anything about Buhari apart from the one they have been brainwashed with that he is 'spotless' and 'holy' and worst still most of the youths won't read to find out facts for themselves. I pity this generation.

well I will still vote buhari,for me GEJ haven't perform,so I will vote for buhari next month

nationwide1:
I'm not in support of the arrest but for the student leader to say Buhari represents a better hope for students shows the student leader is bereft of the knowledge of common history of Nigeria.

1. Buhari banned NANS.

2. Buhari banned freedom of expression. Vocal journalists and critics were imprisoned.

3. Buhari stopped subsidized meals in the universities.

4. Buhari banned NMA

5. Buhari never built a single primary school not to talk of secondary school or university in his two years in power.

Is that a kind of person that represents hope to the students? SMH in disappointment.

how many secondary,primary and hospitals did GEJ built when he was the governor of bayelsa state

What Do U Expect When You Have Thug As a Governor?

These students have to be released, we cant just keep quiet, fold our arms and watch. Fayose is passing his boundary at every oppurtunity and that's the reason he doesnt want Buhari to emerge president. This lawlessness his getting too much