The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has raised the alarm over alleged plan by Governor Ayodele Fayose to ambush the campaign convoys of the APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, as he comes to the state on Saturday on a campaign visit.
The APC State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Monday said APC was in possession of intelligence that the governor had concluded plans to unleash thugs on the convoys of APC members on the way to their presidential candidate’s campaign rally.
Olatubosun alleged that Fayose had already hired members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) with alleged help by the self-styled Speaker of the House of Assembly, Dele Olugbemi, himself a member of Dr Frederick Fasehun’s faction of the group, to attack the convoys of APC members on their way to the rally as PDP did in Rivers State. The OPC members, the party said, were engaged as task force men to remove the posters of APC candidates. They are also to strike at the campaign grounds to cause stampede, the party alleged.
“Fayose’s desperation knows no bounds. He took The Punch front page advertorial on Monday depicting that Buhari will die in office like three other Presidents from the North died in office. This is dangerous for our national unity and ethnic harmony. Fayose is dangerous to Nigeria’s unity and the earlier the authorities, Nigerians and Ekiti people in particular appreciate this, the better for us as a nation,” Olatubosun explained.
He said the OPC members were already in town to be deployed to entry points to Ado-Ekiti where they would ambush APC members on their way to the campaign grounds, adding that so far, the group had removed Buhari’s posters pasted in his campaign office in Ado-Ekiti as well as those pasted in the party’s office in the state capital.
