The police may have resolved the riddle surrounding the murder of Dr. Ayo Daramola, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant with the arrest of six men and a woman who have made useful statements at the Police Headquarters in Abuja where they are being detained.
P.M.NEWS gathered from reliable security sources that the suspects told the police that they were recruited from Ondo, Owo and Ikere-Ekiti by men close to Ayo Fayose, the former Ekiti State governor, who is now on the run. The leader of the gang, identified as Aladesanmi Bisoye, has given the police, a shocking statement of how they carried out the dastardly act. Sources close to the police said that members of the gang bought their ammunition from a man named Ogbonna who is based in Akure.
According to the suspects, after killing Dr. Daramola, the gang stole his money and mobile phones. Our sources further said one of the suspects later gave one of Daramola’s handsets to his girlfriend. The woman has also been nabbed by the police and is now in their custody along with the other suspects. The phone was found with her. Dr. Daramola, a consultant to the World Bank Country Office in Abuja on Social Protection and HIV/AIDS, was slaughtered in his bedroom in his home town, Ijan Ekiti, on Monday, 14 August this year.
He was killed in the same manner Engineer Funsho Williams was killed in Lagos state on 27 July. Daramola, just as Williams, was a governorship aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State. His assassination sparked outrage and widespread condemnation across the country. The popular governorship aspirant had held a rally the previous day during which he told the people how he was going to improve their lot if he was elected as governor next year.
Many pointed accusing fingers at Ayo Fayose, at the time, considering the allegations of threats to the lives of many prominent Ekiti indigenes levelled against the governor. Besides, Daramola had sent a distress letter to the police alleging that Fayose was after his life. In the letter to the police, Daramola said he would have begun his campaign for the 2007 governorship race but had to tarry a little because of threats to his life.
He wrote in the letter thus: “The campaign should have long begun but we are being careful since the incumbent governor (Ayo Fayose) has been harassing the opposition with thugs and weapons to maim and destroy such ambitions. His agents have intimidated me severally and I am beginning to be uncomfortable with this situation. Various characters parade my country home at night and my security man chased off at Ijan.” Many believe Fayose indeed hounded Daramola till the end and the startling confessional statements of suspects arrested in connection with his murder, seem to confirm this fact.
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