Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has described the arrest on Tuesday of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd), by men of the Department of State Services (DSS), as continuation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime of vengeance,
saying “disobeying court order and later arresting and detaining the same person the court ordered to be allowed to travel abroad for medicare is the peak of dictatorship.”
Fayose, who reiterated his support for the fight against
corruption, maintained that it must be done within the ambit of the law and must not be used to seek vengeance.
He declared support for Dasuki’s demand for an open trial as against the federal government’s demand for a secret trial.
In a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said “after flagrantly disobeying court orders, whatever that is done or said by the Buhari-led government concerning Sambo Dasuki will appear vindictive and it remains to be seen how a government that
refused to obey the court will now charge Dasuki to the same court.”
He called for caution on the information being giving by the federal
government to the public on its anti-corruption, saying trying people
in the media as being done by the federal government was dangerous to
democracy and rule of law.
The governor said; “Again, is it the duty of the DSS to investigate
fraud? If Dasuki committed fraud as being alleged, why not let the
appropriate government agency handle his matter? Why first torturing
him emotionally with the DSS siege on his house?
“My position is that, since the federal government said report of its
panel indicted Dasuki, why arresting and detaining him? Why not charge
him to court so that he can also accept quilt or defend himself?”
