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With just two weeks to the Ekiti re-run governorship
election in that state, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives Oladimeji Bankole
says the government will not allow Ekiti to
degenerate to what happened
in Jos recently.
Speaking with airport correspondents in Lagos,
Bankole who reminded the people of Ekiti State
of the 1983 political crisis between Omoboriowo
and Ajasin in the old Ondo State,warned the people
to be law abiding to ensure that peace reigns.
According Bankole,Ekiti State has suffered a lot of
setback as a result political crisis in that
state and there was the need for peace to be
brought back there."Don’t forget that Ekiti, not too
long ago for
six months was under emergency rule and those
political players are still on the field
today. Don’t forget 1983, as far as Omoboriowo is
concerned. Don’t forget west here in 1963"
He urged the elders of Ekiti to wade into the crisis
and ensure that there was sanity in that
state. "I am asking elders to wade into Ekiti
to make sure that law and order does not break down.
Government will have to stand firm and be seen
to stand firm, so that when someone asks me
this question in ten years time, I can say yes,
Dimeji Bankole did every thing to make sure that law
and order did not break down in Ekiti
whether it is AC, whether it is PDP''Bankole said
But Bankole's words of caution may have come as an
afterthought as he was one of the PDP leaders who
reportedly said during electioneering that
everything would be done by the party to win
the re-run.Speaker Bankole later denied reports
linking him with the call for the deployment
of soldeirs for the polls in Ekiti.
On the withdrawal of security men attached to the
former vice president Atiku Abubakar, the Speaker
said the House will look into the matter.
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