Yoruba Ekiti Speaker alleges assassination attempt
By ThisDay | Published 26 February 2009
Acting speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon Saliu Adeoti, on Tuesday alleged an assassination attempt on his life by unknown gunmen at his Moba-Ekiti country home. Briefing newsmen on his ordeal yesterday, Adeoti alleged that leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were behind the unsuccessful attack on his life. According to the speaker, the assassins, numbering about five and heavily armed, stormed the hotel where he lodged at about 9.45pm on the fateful day, based on information that he was around.
He said, before leaving Ado-Ekiti, the state capital same day, he had received several telephone calls threatening him that his life was in danger over the latest pronouncement that the Acting governor, Hon Tunji Odeyemi, should sack all the cabinet members of the former governor, Mr Segun Oni.
He told journalists that on his arrival at a particular hotel in Moba, somebody called him and instructed him to leave, saying that men of the underworld had perfected their nefarious plan to eliminate him.
Adeoti said what saved his life was the instruction he had left behind that anytime he was in that hotel, nobody should be allowed to come in, as arrangement had equally been made to pay for every available room in the hotel.
The speaker further said based on the instruction he left with the security men at the gate, when the alleged assailants came, they were restricted by the security men.
According to him, such arrangement was also to prevent this kind of incident from occurring; especially now that the politics in the state appeared volatile.
He expressed concern why such incident could happen at a time when members of the Assembly had now decided to work together for the good of the common people of the state .
He said, already the matter had been reported to the acting governor as well as the DPO of the area.
Adeoti added the he knew that signal must have equally been sent to the police headquarters, Ado-Ekiti.
While expressing his belief in God’s protection, the Speaker warned that should anything happen to any member of the Assembly, Ekiti people would not take it lightly.
“Let me sound a note of warning that if anything should happen to any member of the Assembly, especially now that we have decided to work as one body, the entire people of Ekiti State would rise up in defence,” he said.
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ByBBC, Reuters
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ByDr Spinoza
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