The Attorney General of Ekiti State, Owoseni Ajayi, has denied the allegation of violation of fundamental human rights leveled against Governor Ayodele Fayose by the All Progressives Congress.

A February 16, 2015 petition by the Ekiti State Secretary of the APC, Omotosho Ayodele, the party had urged the National Human Rights Commission to investigate Fayose over alleged sponsored pre-election violence in Ekiti State.

It also called on the commission to declare the governor as “a person of interest” in its investigation of election violence in Nigeria.

But Ajayi, in a letter to the commission, stated that the allegations were misrepresentations of facts, deliberately orchestrated by the APC on a smear campaign for political gains.

He stated that immediately Fayose assumed office, a barrage of petitions inundated his office, alleging flagrant violations of fundamental human rights, abuse of office and injustice meted out to the people of the state under the administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi.

“Notable among them was the alleged murder of one Ayodele Jeje by the state Chairman of the APC, Chief Jide Awe, and his cohorts on March 30, 2013 at Erijiyan-Ekiti,” he added.