2014 Poll: Ekiti Group Urges Police Not To Be Bias
A Political Pressure group in Ekiti State, Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has cautioned leadership of the State Police Command against exhibiting bias against any political organisation or individual in the State towards the 2014 governorship election.
EJG, which decried the recent arrest and prosecution of supporters of the Ekiti Bibiire Coalition, said it was funny that the same police that accused the Bibiire Coalition of contravening the Electoral allowed youths of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to hold a campaign rally in Ado-Ekiti, the State capital today.
In a release issued today and signed by its Coordinator, Comrade Ebenezer Olaleye and Secretary, Mr. Gbenga Babawibe, EJG said it was still waiting for the police to arrest and prosecute the thugs, who on Thursday, September 19, 2013 blocked major roads in Ado-Ekiti and were seen brandishing guns, cutlasses, knives, and other dangerous weapons.
"Today in Ado-Ekiti, some APC youths held a campaign rally, moving in a motorcade from the party secretariat through Ajilosun Road.
"The question that we wish to ask the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Mr Sotonye Wakama is that; didn't the APC youths rally also contravened Section 99 of the Electoral Act 2011 (as amended), which stipulated that campaign rallies could only take place 90 days to any election?
"If the police had to disrupt the launching of Ekiti Bibiire Coalition, which is not a political party, because it purportedly contravened the Electoral Act, why then was the APC youths rally that was held in Ado-Ekiti today not disrupted?
"We are calling the attention of the general public to this seeming bias by the Ekiti State Police Command because of the next year election and we won't want the police to be the ones top be used against perceived opponent of the APC-led State government.
"The State Police Command should therefore begin to live above board in the discharge of its duties by not being bias against any politician, political party or organisation in the State," the group said.