Ex-Governor Gbenga Daniel Goes on Hunger Strike

Things are not the same anymore! These are certainly not the best of times for the former strong man of Ogun State local politics, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. The 'gentleman' is currently cooling his heels in one of the detention facilities run by the EFCC, but his counsel is shouting that the former governor is been maltreated in detention.

The always smiling former governor has now tighten his face, in fact he has embarked on a self-imposed hunger strike to protest the manner he's been treated by the EFCC. According to a statement by his counsel, ex-Governor Daniel is being...

detained “under unbearable conditions” and subjected to “gruesome interrogations” by operatives of the commission.

The statement reads: "Under normal circumstances, Otunba Daniel should have been arraigned in court since he has spent more than the required period specified by law in detention,” the statement said. “But at the time of issuing this statement, he has not been arraigned in court and no charge has been preferred against him. Yet he is being detained and his fundamental human rights curtailed for no just cause. Only his wife is allowed access to him." 

Yemi Oke, Gbenga Daniel's counsel, is making insinuations that a former president (probably Olusegun Obasanjo) was behind the current travails of Gbenga Daniel and is calling on "all men and women of goodwill to prevail on the EFCC to allow the rule of law to prevail by either releasing the former governor or charge him to court," since according to him "These are the only two options known to law."