Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has referred to as on the Ekiti State Police Command to arrest and prosecute the armed thugs who attacked the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Mr Omoyele Sowore, in Ado-Ekiti final week.
Falana, in a press release, stated the attackers are well-known and needs to be arraigned earlier than the Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti with out additional delay.
He recalled that a number of years in the past, Dr Ayo Daramola, Tunde Omojola and Kehinde Fasuba had been brutally killed by a infamous killer squad in Ekiti State as a result of political variations, noting that the gang additionally threatened different outstanding indigenes of the state.
According to him, though the suspects had been arrested and charged with murder earlier than the Ekiti State High Court, the case was compromised by highly effective political forces, making thuggery and illegal killing a regular occurrence within the state.
Citing a latest case, Falana stated on September 14, 2026, a former chairman of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, Mr Joseph Rotimi Olabiowonu, alias “Metilo,” and one Opeyemi Adedoyin invaded the home of Sunday Ogunsakin in Afao-Ekiti over a land dispute, kidnapped and assaulted him.
He stated the suspects pushed the sufferer out of a shifting automobile, inflicting extreme head accidents that led to his loss of life on the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, EKSUTH.
Falana famous that each suspects had been arrested and investigated by the State Police Command underneath Commissioner Michael Falade and arraigned earlier than a magistrates’ courtroom in Ado-Ekiti, the place, regardless of strain from highly effective forces, the Magistrate ordered their remand in a correctional facility pending authorized recommendation from the Attorney-General.
He recommended the Ekiti State Government for dissociating itself from the assault on Sowore and calling for thorough investigation, however urged the Ministry of Justice to take over the case of Olabiowonu and Adedoyin and cost them with abduction, torture and murder earlier than the High Court.
