#EkitiGate Channels TV Staff Helped Tope Aluko Escape DSS Arrest

Tope Aluko, the man who confessed live on Channels TV, yesterday, narrowly escaped arrest by officials of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) who stormed the Channels studio office on Sunday night.

Mr. Aluko, a member of the Ekit state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), until his recent suspension, on Sunday night appeared on Politics Today, a live TV programme on Channels Television where he gave a breakdown of how the Ekiti State governorship election was rigged in favour Governor Ayodele Fayose.

Mr Aluko "confessed" that the Ekiti state election was rigged despite having testified at a lower Tribunal that the election was not rigged.

"There was a strike team, a mixture of the DSS, military, the mobile police… that is about all, to take out APC leaders, making them incommunicado with their members", Aluko said on Channels.

"Before the primaries, His Excellency, Ayodele Fayose, said that we can only win using the military.

"Then we came up with a plan about May.

Mr Aluko disclosed that he had to confess because Fayose promised to appoint him Chief of Staff and Honourable Femi Bamisile the Deputy Governor, but Fayose then went on to betray him.

In the course of the TV programme, operatives of the DSS stormed the Channels TV studio.

Initially, it was not clear why they came but a source who witnessed the scene revealed they came searching for Aluko.

Further investigations on Monday revealed that the DSS operatives had arrived the Channels TV headquarters to effect the arrest of Mr. Aluko over the damning allegations he made in the course of the programme.

A Channels TV staff who did not want to be named said; "They came to arrest Aluko but we told them he had left the building. So they drove into the night possibly to track him down. After they had left, we had to secretly smuggle him out of the building in disguise", the source disclosed.

Meanwhile, Governor Fayose's media aide, Lere Olayinka, in his response to Aluko opined that the "confesser" "is a person of unstable character who can sell his mother if offered enough money"..

He further disclosed that Mr Aluko had been involved in different crimes, ranging from admission racketeering, sex-for-marks and issuance of certificates to students as a lecturer.