Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the Department
of State Services (DSS) claim that it uncovered plot by the Rivers
State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike to disrupt governance in strategic
federal government agencies as “barefaced attempt by the federal
government to divert the attention of Nigerians and the international
community from its involvement in the violence unleashed on the people
of Rivers State during the December 10 rerun elections.”
The governor said it was unfortunate that the DSS could no longer hide
its partisanship, adding that; “accusing a serving governor of
plotting to disrupt governance in Abuja is the height of irresponsible
display of partisanship by a security agency that should serve
Nigerians and not the APC.
Speaking through his Special Assistant on Public Communications and
New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said no amount of
intimidation, blackmail and harassment by the DSS and other federal
government security agencies will make Nigerians to surrender the
country to dictatorship.
The governor challenged the DSS to tell Nigerians those who sponsored
the Tuesday, protest in Abuja by a group that called itself National
Support Groups for Good Governance, (NASUGG), saying; “When protesters
went round major streets in Abuja on Tuesday, protesting against
Governor Wike, where was the DSS then?
“Assuming but not even conceding that anyone was planning to protest
in support of Governor Wike, what is wrong with that? Was the DSS on
sabbatical on Tuesday, when protest was held in the same Abuja against
Governor Wike?
“Is the DSS now telling Nigerians that only supporters of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) can protest and only protests against the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are sanctioned?”
Speaking further, Governor Fayose said; “Security agencies were
accused of playing ignoble roles in the Rivers State rerun elections.
Can the same security agencies that was accused of ballot box
snatching and assisting the APC to unleash terror on the people of
Rivers State carry out any credible probe?
“The only probe that will be credible and acceptable concerning the
Rivers State rerun election is the one in which the international
community, civil society organisations and observers who were on the
field during the election take part not this kangaroo probe being
spearheaded by the police just to work to a pre-determined
conclusion.”