The Ekiti state House of Assembly has raised the alarm over alleged deployment of heavily armed policemen to the premises of the house without any respectable official request.
However, when journalists visited the Assembly as of 10.00 am, the policemen have been withdrawn and the premises kept under lock and key.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Hon Kola Oluwawole, who briefed newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Thursday said the anti-riot policemen were deployed around 9 pm on Wednesday.
Oluwawole, who addressed newsmen in company of 17 other members accused members who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) prior to the July 14 governorship election as being responsible for the act.
The Speaker said one of the defected lawmakers allegedly forged a letter purportedly written by the Clerk, Mr. Tola Esan and addressed to the Police Commissioner, Mr. Bello Ahmed calling for the deployment
when such was unwarranted.
The former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers; Hon Gboyega
Aribisogan, Sunday Akinniyi and Ebenezer Alagbada, decamped to APC owing to irreconcilable differences with Governor Ayodele Fayose.
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