Tributes As Slain NCP Chief Is Buried
FROM IFEDAYO SAYO (ADO-EKITI), Guardian Newspaper
ADO-EKITI, the Ekiti State capital, was yesterday in mourning as the remains of the victim of the May 28, by-election crisis, Mr. Tunde Omojola, a National Conscience Party (NCP) chieftain, were laid to rest.
Hundreds of mourners, including the President of West Africa Bar Association (WABA), Mr. Femi Falana, Mr. Babafemi Ojudu and a governorship aspirant, Kayode Faluyi, clad in black attires, took the body round in a long convoy of cars before burial at the Dallimore site.
The body had earlier in the day been moved from the state hospital morgue to his town, Ifaki-Ekiti, where he was killed, for burial rites.
Amid wailing and abusive songs directed at the perceived killers of Omojola, the mourners called on the Police to arrest the killers of the deceased and bring them to justice
Hundreds of policemen were deployed to the streets of Ado-Ekiti to provide security for the mourners and to maintain peace.
Omojola was killed during the councillorship bye-election held at Ifaki-Ekiti on May 28, this year.
He was allegedly beaten to death by some people while resisting attempts to rig the election.
The Police are yet to conclude investigation into the death.
At the burial, Falana gave the Police seven days to arrest the killers of Omojola, saying many people witnessed the killing of the deceased at Ifaki-Ekiti.
He said after the ultimatum, he and his colleagues in the NCP would invoke relevant provisions of the law to bring the killers to justice.
Falana called on the people to come together and resist the murder of innocent souls by political riff-raffs in the state, maintaining that the death of Omojola would be made the last of any political murder in the state.
Ojudu called on the people to always resist injustice no matter who was involved, saying the death of Omojola was very painful to the people of the state.
Faluyi, who spoke on behalf of all governorship aspirants in the state, said Omojola would not be allowed to die in vain, as his death would water the seed of democracy in the state.
