BREAKING NEWS: Fayose's Thugs On The Run

Things are no longer at ease in the Adesua Lodge, Government House, hide-out of Governor Ayodele Fayose's thugs who have been unleashing violence on APC members in the last four months.

Sources within the Government House said the thugs were rattled when news filtered to them that two of them had been arrested by the Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, and put them in police cell without the police readiness to grant them bail.

Not only that, they also fear the planned storming of the Government House by security agents to smoke out other thugs quartered there in a determined effort to rid the state of thugs as power slips from Jonathan and by extension, Fayose.

It is confirmed that Ekiti top leader of Fayose's thugs, Tosco, has arrived Lagos. Same for Femi Akilapa, who led thugs shooting at APC secretariat last week after street celebration of Buhari's victory.

According to the Government House sources, Bashiru Ajagbemokeferi and a group of other thugs are struggling in vain to establish contact with the governor, who sources hinted, has been out of sight since early yesterday.

Bashiru, who is likely to assume duties as the leader of the Ekiti State wing of Fayose's thugs after Akilapa and Tosco had trusted their heels, is from Igbemo-Ekiti. He is the son of the late popular Islamic cleric, Alhaji Musa Ajagbemokeferi. Bashiru is notorious for being the black sheep of the family. Other siblings are doing fine in their callings, including clergy.

During one of Bashiru's operations in which he was arrested, his mother's health crisis heightened leading to the sudden death of the distraught woman.

Now a good instrument in Fayose's hand, Bashiru had led several attacks sponsored by Fayose to intimidate the opposition in the state including his native Igbemo.

The "foreign wing" of Fayose's thugs have also fled, it was learnt. They were imported to the state in two batches. The first "consignment" was "shipped" into the state one and half months ago at night. They spent the first night in Afao but relocated to the Government House the second day when THE MONITORS broke the news. 

They were joined by the locals who held forte before Fayose decided to add a foreign content to the garrison of thugs lodged in the Government House, among whom were escapees in the jail break earlier in November last year. Among them are Tosco, Small, Emeka and Emma Ikogosi, and others.

The second batch of foreign content in Fayose's thuggery factory arrived the state four days to the presidential election. They were the ones operating around the state two days to the election with the local content of the hoodlums pointing to where they would operate.

As tongues continue to wag about Fayose's whereabouts, it is likely that the remnants of these thugs will be looking for holes to make good their escape from Ekiti State. But the long arms of the law are ever elastic, as the police are ready to launch their dragnet to seize the hoodlums that have been making life a nightmare for Ekiti people in the past few months.

THE MONITORS