DSS Wants To Get Me Impeached At All Costs, Says Fayose

Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has lambasted the Department of State Services (DSS) over what he described as the illegal arrest of some public officials of the state to destabilise his government.
Governor Fayose alleged while speaking with newsmen in Ado Ekiti that the intention of the arrests was to get him impeached, saying that they had engaged a wrong customer.

Fayose said he would be a hard nut to crack for President Muhammadu Buhari, and lamented how the DSS had allegedly usurped the statutory roles of the police and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), “just because of desperation and attempt to get at me at all costs.”
Fayose said this in his official reaction to the Federal High Court judgment delivered by Justice Taiwo Taiwo in Ado Ekiti on Friday, ordering the DSS to release a detained lawmaker, Honourable Afolabi Akanni, with immediate effect.



Aside Akanni, the Finance Commissioner, Mr Toyin Ojo, was also arrested and had since been released after interrogation.
The governor, who rapped President Buhari for allegedly aiding the Lawal Daura-led DSS to act beyond its constitutional powers, said there was no quantum of intimidation and harassment that could dissuade him from speaking on national policies that could affect the corporate existence of Nigerian citizens.
“Beyond this judgment, I have always said that the DSS are taking on more than their brief. They have become an instrument of oppression. They are now taking up the job of the police, the EFCC and all other security agencies.

“You would recall that they were at the Akwa Ibom State lodge to harass the governor. They came to Ekiti to do the same thing. But this Ekiti, they are taking on a wrong customer.
“Maybe they think this will make me to stop criticising the policies of the APC Buhari-led government, no. Let me make it very clear to them that majority would have their way, minority would have their say.

“Ours is to continue to help democracy to grow and to help the average man gets dividends of democracy by keeping the government in power on its toes. Harassing me would make their government unpopular. I have said that before, an attempt to take me on would bring down their government,” he said.
“”I’m entitled to my opinion, how would DSS be investigating the finances of a state, that is taking it too far, how would DSS detain somebody without a court order, and detaining him for one, two weeks.

“Anybody who is supporting this act, one day it would be your turn, it is Ekiti today. I urge all Nigerians to rise and oppose this act of oppression; this country belongs to all of us.
“It is time to stop this harassment, taking away the right of humanity, taking away the right of Nigerians, anything that would take away our rights should be confronted headlong and be stopped. When they finish with politicians, they would take on lawyers and even the journalists”, he concluded.
Tribune.