The Ekiti State chapter of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, has made a passionate appeal to Governor Ayodele Fayose to secure the release of its Chairman, Adeniyi Adedipe, from prison custody.
Adedipe is on remand for alleged involvement in the murder of former state chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Omolafe Aderiye, on September 25, 2014.
Omolafe, a staunch supporter of Governor Fayose, was killed on September 25, 2014, in Ijigbo Area of the state capital.
Making the appeal yesterday, an OPC executive member in the state, Segun Egunlusi, urged Fayose to reconsider Adedipe’s case because his continued incarceration was “political”.
Describing Adedipe and Aderiye as “brothers and business partners with long years of close bond”, Egunlusi added that Adedipe had used his office to collaborate with successive administrations and security agencies to fight crime and would never be involved in any criminal act.
The OPC chief expressed sadness that Adedipe’s remand in prison custody prevented him from participating in the funeral rites of his late father saying the group had no option than to appeal to Fayose to intervene in his plight.
Egunlusi said, “We urge the governor to urgently intervene in the remand of our state leader, the Apase Oodua, Prince Adeniyi Adedipe. We want to state clearly without any fear of contradiction that he is innocent of Aderiye’s killing.
“We want the state government to temper justice with mercy because we know that he is suffering as a result of politics. He had no hand in the murder of Aderiye.
“We want the governor to be merciful to Apase because he has suffered unjustly for the offence he knew nothing about and we are ready to cooperate with his administration as we did other administrations before it”.
