Asake’s Murder: APC Warns Police Against Being Used For Political Witch-hunt

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has alerted
Nigerians of the dirty political tricks the PDP and its enforcers in Lagos
is perpetrating using the police to clamp down on APC members.

The party said that the killing of an APC Leader, Alhaji Azeez Asake by a
notorious PDP thug group known as Abija has become a weapon with which the
PDP is turning around and hunting APC members in Lagos Island and said
that the police should restrain itself from being used by the desperate
PDP to foment trouble in Lagos in the wild belief that such will help its
diarrhead dream of ever capturing Lagos in 2015.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of
APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that the police has, in a curious manner,
released the main suspect in the gruesome murder who is one Rafiu Bashorun
a.k.a Abija and instead declared wanted three APC members; Mustapha
Adekunle, Fatai Ali and Fatai Olori. The party warned that nothing should
be done to further provoke the members of APC in Lagos as no one can
forecast what should be the outcome of such provocation in the face of the
impunity and lawlessness the PDP has levied on Lagos.

“It is on record that we had been demanding for justice for the murder of
Asake by thugs who work with the Minister of State for Defence, Musliu
Obanikoro. We had addressed press conferences and issued press releases
demanding that the well known real perpetrators of the crime against our
member be brought to justice. We were under the impression that having
arrested the perpetrator of the murder of Asake, the Police was determined
to do a good job and bring the sponsors of that cruel act to justice.

“We were alarmed to hear recently that the Police has in a curious way
that not only mocks justice, released the person that was identified to
have fired the shot that killed Asake and escorted him home. In a bizarre
twist, it rather declared wanted three members of our party in a move that
we suspect is dictated by the very people that ordered the killing of
Asake. This is a rehash of the cruel ear of military despotism when our
patriots who were fighting for democracy and justice were attacked and
blamed as the real perpetrators of these attacks. We are shocked that the
police did not even care to be guided by little decency in freeing the
murderers of an innocent man but using the same act as excuse to hunt and
frame up his political associates.

“Lagos APC is saying that this is unacceptable even as we have been
inundated by gory spectacles of PDP’s lawlessness, brigandage  and
impunity in seeking to overwhelm and conquer the badly governed country in
2015. We warn that we will never tolerate such act of brazen intimidation
by a party that should be apologizing to Nigerians for taking it from a
medium height to the very nadirs of development in sixteen bizarre years
of corruption and rudderless gangsterism.

“We want to warn the police that it should not continue rubbing in on its
not so good image. We warn that the Police risks being seen as the enemies
of Lagosians should it allow itself to be used by desperate political way
farers to perpetrate and cover crimes against Lagosians. We warn the
police to restrain itself against the rampaging political greed of the PDP
and fish out both the perpetrators and sponsors of the killing of Alhaji
Asake as that remains the only path of truth and justice in this case.

“While we urge our teeming supporters and members to remain calm in the
face of the increasing provocation from the PDP and its masters in Lagos,
we warn that nothing should be done to challenge the readiness and
competence of Lagosians to defend themselves against the annoying
petulance of the greedy, desperate political invaders and their masters.
The police should call off this annoying siege on our members right now
and move in to arrest and prosecute both the perpetrators and sponsors of
the killing of our member, Alhaji Asake.”