Gunmen attack Ekiti APC lawmaker’s house

 
A member of House of Repre­sentatives, Hon Ife Arowosoge yesterday narrowly es­caped being killed by a 6-man gang, who in­vaded his Ado Ekiti and traumatized his wife, Dr (Mrs) Oluwayemi Aro­wosoge and other occu­pants.


Arowosoge, took jour­nalists round the house at Ajowa Area of Dallimore yesterday and accused the opposition party of being behind the alleged plot to assassinate him.
The suspected assassins broke into the house at 4.30am and traced his wife, two kids and the househelp, who had al­ready cramped themselves in the pent room.

The Federal lawmaker, who is representing Ekiti South Federal Constitu­ency 1, alleged that mem­bers of the All Progres­sives Congress in the state have been subjected to all forms of terrorism in the last few months, asking “even if it was a case of robbery, why is it that only members of APC were be­ing attacked?
Arowosoge declared that similar thing had happened to the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oye­gun, which was a pointer to the fact that there was an alleged secret plot to decimate the opposition.

Arowosoge said he had to resort to the Director of the State Security Ser­vice in Ekiti, Mr Samuel Tamuno, whom he said responded on the need to take all necessary ac­tions.
“The speaker of the Eki­ti State House of Assem­bly, Hon Adewale Omirin and other lawmakers had been attacked under simi­lar circumstances. So, it was a clear case of assas­sination against me.
“Immediately they gained entry into my House, the first question they asked repeatedly from my wife is: “where is your husband” before my wife told them that if it was money she was ready to offer before they col­lected money”.

The Police Public Rela­tions Officer of the Ekiti State Police Command, Victor Babayemi said preliminary investigation conducted by the police indicated that it was a clear case of robbery.
Babayemi said the sus­pected robbers had earlier robbed a hotel within vi­cinity