I write personally to demand the immediate release of Mr Banji Orogbemi, a leading member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) who has been recently unjustly arrested and remanded for openly critiquing the roguery and inefficiencies in the Lucky Ayedatiwa-led government. No one should be arrested for expressing her or his freedom of speech!
For the upteenth time, Governor Lucky Ayedatiwa is showing his tyrannical tendencies. In August, he arrested me and six others for leading a protest on #EndBadGovernance and swore to keep us perpetually in prison until he lost his sleep for forty-eight hours and had to let the Comrades go, while lying around that he didn’t order our arrest just to do damage control after losing public support and the prevailing debate. The same Governor Aiyedatiwa unleashed his thugs on us after I spoke the truth about how he used #775 million to re-do fence of the government house while the numbers of out-of-school children skyrocket to over 26,000!
The arrest and subsequent detention of Mr Banji Orogbemi is an anomaly and he must be released immediately. Our party, the African Action Congress AAC will take political and legal steps to challenging this alongside all the NNPP and all conscientious people. Lucky is taking his ill luck too far with his dictatorial ways. This must stop. Ondo State is a democratic state and we can never allow some baby Hitlers to destroy this.
We therefore call on all Ondo State people to rise and demand the immediate release of Banji Orogbemi. We condemn the police and judiciary collaborating with the governor to rob people of their social and political rights. Another Ondo State is very possible!
Signed:
Kunle ‘Wizeman’ Ajayi,
AAC Gubernatorial Candidate,
22nd October, 2024.
