Ekiti PDP Accuses Buhari Of Harbouring Wanted Murder Suspect In Presidential Villa

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
has described as worrisome and
embarrassing, President Mohamadu
Buhari’s 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.
The statement read; “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
fortheir 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 was therefore worrisome and
embarrassing that sucha person
could be granted access to the
Presidential Villa and be allowed to
take photographs with the
president.”