Unknown gunmen, Wednesday opened fire on jubilant members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the party’s secretariat in Ado Ekiti, the state capital.
Members of the party had just returned from a victory procession on the street of Ado Ekiti in celebration of the victory of its presidential candidtate, General Mohammadu Buhari, in last Saturday’s presidential election when the incident occurred.
Confirming the attack, APC state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, while addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti after the attack, said the gunmen came in three Hilux vans with Government House registration number and three men in police uniform sitting in front.
Olatunbosun accused the governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose and the Police of complicity in the attack, adding that the party had received information earlier that certain top people in government house were planning to prevent any form of celebration of APC’s victory.
He also alleged that the gunmen were members of a killer gang sent to disrupt the APC victory party by the governor.
According to Olatubosun, it beats the imagination that while the hoodlums attacked the secretariat, a detachment of police led by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of the Ologede Police Station, Ado Ekiti, looked on without challenging them.
According to him, the gunmen brandishing guns, cutlasses and axes, rained bullets on the secretariat and destroyed no fewer than five cars parked at the secretariat, alleging that Femi, Basiru, Ayo and Opeyemi led the attack.
The intensity of the attack, he said, forced party members and passers-by to scamper for safety.
“We had few members left when they came because some of our teeming members who held a peaceful victory procession were already leaving before they came. They shot at our secretariat.
“We were aware that they were coming but we never knew Governor Fayose could do anything funny because of the mood of the nation, though, we heard him boasting that he won’t allow anyone to mark the victory of Buhari in Ekiti State,” he said.
However, Governor Fayose has denied any link to the attack, adding that the attack was a self-sponsored one by the APC to make it look like an attack from outside. He urged the people to disregard the allegations.
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Ali Adoyi
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