Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti state governor, has raised alarm that he was physically assaulted by some officials of the police command, with
slapps and also was shot at, by security personnel who, according to him, were given instructions to kill him.
He said the policemen deployed to the state for the Saturday, July 14 governorship election stormed the pavilion where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was holding their rally and harassed him.
The governor, who emerged with a neck brace narrated his ordeal and asked supporters of the party to remain resolute and vote for his deputy, who is also the governorship candidate of the PDP, Professor Olusola Kolapo, Punch reports.
Fayose, who burst into tears while speaking with journalists said he was slapped, kicked and shot at by the policemen and said the Inspector General of Police (IGP) should be held responsible if anything happened to him.
The governor said: “My people, the Lord will fight this battle. The COMPOL MOPOL of Nigeria Police and the AIG ordered that the governor should be killed. I was slapped by a policeman and shot at.
He was said to have collapsed after series of teargas attack in Ekiti Government House on Wednesday by the police.
Fayose had mobilised citizens of Ekiti State to embark on a peaceful rally towards the Saturday gubernatorial election.
He reportedly collapsed as security operatives allegedly besieged and fired teargas at the Government House.
But watchers on seeing the pictures of the purported collapse said Fayose was only acting out a script to discredit the APC and the police.
