I was in Ekiti State to monitor the election. One undisputed fact is that APC leaders in each town, local government areas, and the State executives were either arrested or driven underground by the security forces led by Musiliu Obanikoro, Minister of State for Defence and Adeshiyan, Minister of Police Affairs. Journalists and observers were harassed, arrested, and the Osun Broadcasting Corporation 4-man crew were deported to Ora a border town with Kwara State on the flimsy excuse that they conducted an interview with Chief Segun ONI in his Ifaki home. Many people who were not journalists were arrested in most hotels in Ado-Ekiti. Not one person has been paraded as a thug.
When I learnt of the storming of EMAX hotel Ado-Ekiti from a female reporter, I drove down to the hotel in the night and met soldiers harassing occupants of the hotel. 6 people were made to sit on bare floor. A man who claimed he visited the hotel to eat was taken away to identify his residence. No one in the hotel ever saw him again.
