DSS Cell Better Than Succumbing To Blackmail To Impeach Fayose – Ekiti Lawmakers

Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly on Thursday vowed to spend the remainder of their tenures in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, rather than succumb to alleged blackmail to move against Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The lawmakers were reacting to the detention of four of their colleagues since Friday, March 4 by the DSS.
The Ekiti lawmakers also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the DSS to immediately release their detained colleagues.
The chairman of the Ekiti House Committee on Information, Gboyega Aribisogan, while addressing a press conference in Abuja yesterday, said the call became necessary because “the SSS would not embark on such action without presidential approval”.
“Like we have maintained, plotters of evil against the government of Ayodele Fayose and by extension the people of Ekiti State will not get our support”, he said.
“We, members of the State House of Assembly are prepared to spend the rest of our tenure in DSS cell, instead of plotting against our leader and mentor, Governor Ayodele Fayose.
“Gone are those days in Nigeria when impeachment notices against governors were signed on the table of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and this time around, if the DSS is programmed to play the role played by the EFCC under former President Obasanjo, it will fail”.
The Ekiti Assembly spokesperson noted members would not be intimidated by the agents of the federal government especially if it had to do with the 2018 elections in the state.
“We have also been told that some of us have been slated for arrest and detention and it is on this note that we have come to inquire from the DSS those of us they still want to arrest so that we can turn ourselves in without giving them the stress of coming down to Ekiti”, he said.
“The DSS can also go ahead and publish the names of our members that they want to arrest so that we will know who among us to bring to Abuja.
“Alternatively, the DSS can keep the entire 26 members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly in their custody for as long as they desire so that it will be easy for them to call anyone of us for questioning at any time of the day”.