The media aide of erstwhile governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, was, on Tuesday, invited by the police in the state, following a petition against him.
According to Olayinka, who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune on the telephone, the police invited him on the strength of a petition he said was written against him.
Olayinka pointed out that he was at the station on Tuesday for about four hours, adding that he wrote a statement after which he said “the matter has been resolved.”
He explained that “two week s ago, someone posted a threat on my Facebook wall and I wrote a petition to the police on the matter. I had felt Tuesday’s invitation by the police had to do with the matter, because the man was arrested and detained by the police while they investigated it.
“But I was surprised when I was confronted with a large volume of documents at the police headquarters, including a printout of my Facebook posts and people’s comments, as well as a petition alleging that I was maligning the state government and the person of the state governor.”
He, however, did not state the matter of settlement.
When the police in the state was contacted, a source said “there had been interventions and we do not want to stretch the matter further.”
The state Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Funminiyi Afuye, while reacting to the development, said “government has no hand in it. There’s no connection between government and Lere Olayinka.”
Meanwhile, the Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has threatened to go to court over the arrest of Mr Olayinka, saying that the state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, should apologise to him within 14 days.
The group, in a statement on Wednesday, said the arrest of Olayinka by the police, over a petition which accused him of maligning the state government and the person of Governor Fayemi on Facebook, was “the height of tyranny.”
The statement, signed by the group’s coordinator, Dr Tunji Oluwasanmi, said “what Governor Fayemi has demonstrated by engineering the arrest of Mr Olayinka is that he is a civilian dictator, who would have clamped all Nigerians into detention, if he were to be the president of Nigeria.”
According to the group, it was particularly miffed that “Chief of Staff to Governor Fayemi, Mr Yemi Adaramodu, could author a petition against anyone for criticising the government, when former Governor Oni never raised any eyebrow when he (Adaramodu) was making all sort of false claims against him (Oni).”
According to Olayinka, who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune on the telephone, the police invited him on the strength of a petition he said was written against him.
Olayinka pointed out that he was at the station on Tuesday for about four hours, adding that he wrote a statement after which he said “the matter has been resolved.”
He explained that “two week s ago, someone posted a threat on my Facebook wall and I wrote a petition to the police on the matter. I had felt Tuesday’s invitation by the police had to do with the matter, because the man was arrested and detained by the police while they investigated it.
“But I was surprised when I was confronted with a large volume of documents at the police headquarters, including a printout of my Facebook posts and people’s comments, as well as a petition alleging that I was maligning the state government and the person of the state governor.”
He, however, did not state the matter of settlement.
When the police in the state was contacted, a source said “there had been interventions and we do not want to stretch the matter further.”
The state Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Funminiyi Afuye, while reacting to the development, said “government has no hand in it. There’s no connection between government and Lere Olayinka.”
Meanwhile, the Ekiti Justice Group (EJG) has threatened to go to court over the arrest of Mr Olayinka, saying that the state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, should apologise to him within 14 days.
The group, in a statement on Wednesday, said the arrest of Olayinka by the police, over a petition which accused him of maligning the state government and the person of Governor Fayemi on Facebook, was “the height of tyranny.”
The statement, signed by the group’s coordinator, Dr Tunji Oluwasanmi, said “what Governor Fayemi has demonstrated by engineering the arrest of Mr Olayinka is that he is a civilian dictator, who would have clamped all Nigerians into detention, if he were to be the president of Nigeria.”
According to the group, it was particularly miffed that “Chief of Staff to Governor Fayemi, Mr Yemi Adaramodu, could author a petition against anyone for criticising the government, when former Governor Oni never raised any eyebrow when he (Adaramodu) was making all sort of false claims against him (Oni).”
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