BEING FULL TEXT OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE ADDRESSED ON SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2016 BY THE SPEAKER & MEMBERS OF THE EKITI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ON THE INVASION OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY BY ARMED MEN OF DSS ON FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2016

Gentlemen of the Press,
We have called you here to intimate the public through your various medium, the clandestine plot by the President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government to destabilise the Ekiti State Government, using the instrumentalities of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Yesterday, the House of Assembly Chamber was invaded by armed men of the DSS. Not minding that various committees of the House were meeting, more than 10 DSS men who were armed to the teeth invaded the Assembly Complex, shooting sporadically into the air, thereby causing panic among members and staff of the House of Assembly, who had to scamper for safety.
At the end of the commotion created by this barbaric act, we discovered that four of our members could not be found.
It was only this morning that we were able to establish that Hon Afolabi Akanni, representing Efon Constituency was abducted and taken to Abuja.
Whereabouts of three other members is still unknown as we speak, and reasons for the invasion and abduction of our members are not known.
However, we got it on good authority that the script now being acted by the DSS is part of the APC and President Buhari’s clandestine plot to cripple the Ekiti State Government by arresting and detaining top functionaries of the government.
The plot is to harass, intimidate and embarrass top officials of the Ayodele Fayose government because of his critical stance on the Buhari’s government.
We are aware that 18 of our members have been pencilled down for harassment and the game plan is to harass them to submission, with a view to coercing them into signing an already prepared notice of impeachment of the governor and his deputy.
However, we wish to inform those orchestrating the harassment and intimidation of officials of the Ekiti State Government, especially honourable members of the State House of Assembly that this is 2016 and not 2006. The same tactics used 10 years ago to truncate democracy in Ekiti State will not work this time.
We therefore wish to tell the APC agents
of political instability that this time
around, this House of Assembly will not
be available for any ungodly use.
We also wish to remind Nigerians of how
in September last year, the Federal
Government invaded the Akwa Ibom
State Government House with armed
men of the Department of State Security
(DSS).
Up till today, Nigerians are yet to be told
officially why, in a Federal system of
government in which federating units
enjoy some degree of autonomy, the Government House occupied by a Governor who enjoys the same immunity enjoys by the President as provided by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was invaded by armed men of the DSS.
While we are not afraid of persecution
from anyone or government agency,
including the DSS, we wish to state that
the level at which the Buhari-led Federal
Government is taking political vendetta
and muzzling of opposition both in the
Peoples Democratic Party and within the
APC is dangerous to the survival of
democracy in the country.
Nigeria is not a banana republic that can
be ruled anyhow by anyone and Mr Lawal
Daura (from Katsina) and his men, who
are playing exactly the same role played
between 1984 and 1985 by the National
Security Organisation (NSO) under Lawal
Rafindadi (from Katsina) should know that
this reign of brute force over
constitutional democracy will fail.
This is because we have seen them
operate before and here they are now,
trying to take us back to that inglorious
era of dictatorship and barbarism where
the DSS (then NSO) was used to oppress
Nigerians, throwing them in jail without
trial. This time around, we are in a
democracy that can never accommodate
that 1984 era of draconian rule.
Lastly, let it be reiterated once again that
this House of Assembly is a partner in the
progress of the Ekiti State government
under the able leadership of Governor
Peter Ayodele Fayose. Therefore, the
Abuja based agents of destabilisation
should get it into their heads that we will
never be harassed or intimidated into
buying into their sinister agenda.
Thank you, and God bless.

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