The African Action Congress, AAC, presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has accused the Ekiti State Police Command of failing to go after the alleged masterminds of the assault on him and members of his staff in Ado-Ekiti, regardless of asserting the arrest of 11 suspects.
Sowore made the allegation in a press release shared on X, insisting that the police should determine and arrest those that allegedly deliberate, financed and coordinated the assault.
He described the arrest of the 11 suspects as an admission that the incident was not an bizarre altercation, because the police had initially claimed.
He maintained that it was an assassination try carried out by government-sponsored thugs.
Sowore known as for an investigation into the alleged suspects, a few of whom he mentioned are linked to the City Boys group, demanding that attainable connections with officers of the Ekiti State Government be investigated.
The presidential candidate urged the Ekiti Commissioner of Police, Falade Adegoroye Michael, and the Department of State Services, DSS, to protect and launch CCTV footage of the incident to assist determine these concerned.
He additionally questioned why the police initially described the incident as an altercation earlier than asserting the arrest of 11 suspects.
“We will not accept the arrest of foot soldiers while the masterminds walk free,” Sowore mentioned.
He demanded an unbiased investigation and the prosecution of everybody implicated by the proof, together with these he accused of sponsoring and coordinating the assault.
