The Rivers State Commander of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS), Akin Fakorede, an indigene of Ekiti State, has said that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in today’s governorship election in Ekiti State, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, and his media aide, Lere Olayinka, lied against him in respect of the election.
Fakorede, a lawyer and Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), told a nation’s reporter in his office in Port Harcourt, yesterday, that he was surprised by what he termed the baseless, senseless, frivolous and spurious allegations levelled against him by Olusola and his media aide.
Olusola had told reporters through Olayinka, the Director, Media and Publicity of Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation, in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday that Fakorede had relocated from Rivers to Ekiti State to rig the election for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
The PDP governorship candidate had said: “Already, Akin Fakorede, an officer of the Federal SARS, has been posted to Ekiti State, ostensibly to play the same ignoble role that he played during the Rivers State election.”
But speaking in an exclusive interview in his office in Port Harcourt at 5.56 pm yesterday, Fakorede, an indigene of Ekiti State, wondered how it is possible for him to be in Rivers and Ekiti states at the same time.
Fakorede said: “I am in my office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. I have never stepped on Ekiti soil in two years, even though I come from Ekiti State.
“PDP leaders should desist from peddling falsehood against police officers, just to gain political mileage.
“This is another white lie from the PDP’s kitty. PDP members should please leave police officers out of their mischief and evil plot. Akin Fakorede is at his duty post in Rivers State.”
