The crisis rocking Imesi-Ekiti in Gbonyin Local Government Area of Ekiti State worsened on Wednesday, as the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Paul Omotosho, alleged threat to his life over the protracted obaship tussle.
In a petition dated November 5, 2019 and addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Asuquo Amba, Omotosho alleged that there was a plot to ‘assassinate’ him as a result of a publication by Agunsoye Ruling House indicting him of plotting to impose his anointed candidate, against the choice of the town.
In the last few months, there has been a palpable fear in the sleepy town over who occupies the vacant stool, following the demise of Oba Oladimeji Adeyeye last December.
The petition was written on Omotosho’s behalf by his counsel, Olatunbosun Otitoju and titled: “Threat to Life, Conduct Likely to Breach Public Peace and Criminal Defamation of Honourable Barrister Paul Omotosho”.
The Head of Agunsoye Ruling House and Secretary, Prince Adu Fasunlade and Sesan Aladesanmi, had in a publication accused the APC chairman of complicity, imposition and undue influence in the obaship tussle.
According to the publication, the duo accused Omotosho of working in cahoots with some top hierarchy of the APC-led government to sabotage the selection processes, noting that the efforts of the kingmakers to install a new monarch were being frustrated by his ‘antics’.
The report, published on November 4, 2019 was considered defamatory, injurious, false, malicious, unjustified and harmful to the APC chairman, who is demanding its immediate retraction and N500, 000,000 from the Agunsoye family.
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Omotosho said that the publication was targeted at defaming his hard-earned integrity, with a view to inciting some ‘jobbers’ in the town to wage a war against him.
He said his movement has been affected due to the feeling that he is now being monitored by some people notorious for bloodletting and senseless killings.
The APC chairman, however, sought police protection against possible attacks on him, urging the commissioner to begin discreet investigation to bring Prince Fasunlade and Prince Aladesanmi to book in the interest of justice and peace.
The petition read: “It is an incontrovertible fact that the widespread allegation against our clients is willfully targeted at injuring, maligning and smearing and dragging in the mud the hard-earned reputation, integrity and reputable household name built over the years.
“It is even to our client’s utmost chagrin and irksome consternation that our client, who is not in any way whatsoever involved or did anything capable of interfering with the statutory responsibilities and duties of the king makers of Imesi-Ekiti, could be a subject of horrendous, disparaging and defaming statement of Prince Adu Fasunlade and Prince Sesan Aladesanmi.
“As a result of the defamatory publication, our clients has suffered unquantifiable pecuniary, psychological loses. He now lives in fear of the hatred, ridicule, harm and attack in Imesi-Ekiti.
“This situation has also been heightened with the growing restiveness and enthronement of a state of anomie in the community consequent upon the continued and unabated instigation of the aforesaid defamatory publication.”
It added: “It is our understanding of the law and unscathed position of the extant laws that the above narrated actions of the Head, Agunsoye Ruling House, Prince Adu Fasunlade and Secretary, Prince Sesan Aladesanmi and their cohorts can best be described as threat to life, conduct likely to breach peace and criminal defamation of our clients.
“It is in view of these facts that we implore and urge you to use your good office to intervene in the matter by investigating, arresting and bringing to book Prince Fasunlade and Prince Aladesanmi and their cohorts and to curb the excesses of these hoodlums and criminal elements whose actions are capable of breaching the peace of the land."
Crisis: APC Chairman Alleges Threat To Life
November 14, 2019
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