Ekiti PDP Condemns Buhari for Allegedly Harboring a Wanted Murderer in Aso Rock

The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has alleged that President
Mohamadu Buhari is harbouring a
wanted murderer at the presidential
villa.
The party condemned Buhari's alleged
meeting with Ekiti State chairman of
the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Chief Jide Awe, in the Presidential
Villa despite that he (Awe) is wanted
for alleged murder in Ekiti State.
Jide Awe, who is facing murder trial
over his alleged involvement in the
murder of Ayo Murphy Jeje and Mrs
Juliana Adewummi in Erinjiyan-Ekiti
in Ekiti state in 2013, had disappeared
into thin air but was sighted in Aso
Villa with President Buhari in a photo-
op on Friday.
State Publicity Secretary of the PDP,
Jackson Adebayo said in a release
issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday that it
will amount to a direct show of
support for murder for President
Buhari to have allowed Jide Awe into
the Presidential Villa.
"We heard that President Buhari said
he is going reopen cases of political
murder. Yet, the same president
allowed into Aso Villa, Jide Awe, who
has refused to make himself available
for trial for alleged murder even after
a Federal High Court in Jos vacated an
interlocutory injunction preventing
Jide Awe from being arrested and
tried for murder.
"We frown at this open display of
insensitivity to the agony of the
families of those who were allegedly
murdered by Jide Awe and others, and
we want to believe that President
Buhari was not well briefed on his
(Awe) evasion of trial.
"Perhaps, President Buhari was
unaware and his security details who
should also know did not inform him
that Jide Awe and four other members
of the APC, namely Faboro John,
Aniramu Basiru, Falayi Busuyi and
Owonifari Sefiu were declared wanted
by the police for their alleged
involvement in the murder of two
persons in Erinjiyan-Ekiti, Ekiti State,
on March 31, 2013.
"Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa of the
Federal High Court in Jos had also
ruled in December last year that
nobody can tie the hands of the police
from performing their constitutional
duties, saying an earlier order he
granted, restraining the arrest of Jide
Awe and others, was just for a limited
time.
"Since the court vacated its order
restraining Jide Awe's arrest and trial
for alleged murder, he has remained a
fugitive.
"It is therefore worrisome and
embarrassing that such a person could
be granted access to the Presidential
Villa and be allowed to take
photographs with the president."