The criticism follows the accusation that Mr Jide Awe is wanted for alleged murder in the state.
These claims came in a statement made on Sunday by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Jackson Adebayo.
Mr Adebayo said that Mr. Awe is wanted by the Police in Ekiti over the murder of Ayi Murphy Jeje and Juliana Adewummi in Erinjiyan-Ekiti in 2013.
Mr. Awe, the chairman of APC in Ekiti State, was said to have attended a meeting of APC state chairmen with the President at the Presidential Villa on Saturday.
According to Mr. Adebayo, “Mr. Awe disappeared from the state after his effort to get the court to restrain his arrest was vacated, but was recently sighted at the Aso Rock Villa.”
“Allowing Mr. Awe into Aso Rock smacked of a show of support for “one suspected to have murdered someone,” he said.
The PDP said “We heard that President Buhari said he is going to reopen cases of political murder.”
“Yet, the same president allowed into Aso Villa, Jide Awe, who has refused to make himself available for trial for alleged murder even after a Federal High Court in Jos vacated an interlocutory injunction preventing Jide Awe from being arrested and tried for murder.
“We frown at this open display of insensitivity to the agony of the families of those who were allegedly murdered by Jide Awe and others, and we want to believe that President Buhari was not well briefed on his (Awe) evasion of trial.”
They added that “Perhaps, President Buhari was unaware and his security details, who should also know, did not inform him that Jide Awe and four other members of the APC, namely: Faboro John, Aniramu Basiru, Falayi Busuyi and Owonifari Sefiu were declared wanted by the police for their alleged involvement in the murder of two persons in Erinjiyan-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on March 31, 2013.
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