Ex Edo Assembly speaker kicks over alleged plan to detain 5 PDP stalwarts till after polls

In an application entitled: “Notice of Application for Order Enforcing Fundamental Right (Order 2, Rule 1)’’ at the Benin High Court in the Edo State Judicial Division, Adjoto is seeking among other things, order of the court to declare that the respondents planned, contemplated and or intended to arrest and detain him.

According to him, the respondents have articulated trumped-up allegations to keep him away from the forthcoming governorship election in Edo.

The former speaker described the purported plan to arrest him as unlawful, illegal and amounting to flagrant infraction on his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution.

He is also seeking an order of perpetual injunction “restraining the respondents, their agents, privies, servants, thugs of any name, whatsoever from arresting, detaining or kidnapping him upon any trumped-up allegation.”

The politician therefore deposed to a 25-paragraph affidavit to support his application.

The off-season governorship election for Edo State has been slated for September 19. Presently tempers are high in the state as the political parties go about their campaigns. There has been reported cases of shootings at campaign grounds.