The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has warned Governor Ayodele Fayose that it would not be the usual easy run in his attacks on APC members, as the governor allegedly begins mobilization to start attacking members after a planned invasion of DSS office in Ado-Ekiti.
The party warned the governor that his alleged thugs would meet “a stiff resistance on the streets to defend APC members with all strength that our members can muster.”
In a petition by the State Secretary of the party, Paul Omotoso, to the Commissioner of Police, Etop James and State Director DSS, entitled ‘Complaint On Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Planned Mass Violence In Ekiti State’, the party said it was aware of clandestine plots by the governor to cause massive violent protest against DSS and APC members that could lead to unprecedented breach of peace in the entire Ekiti State.
“Our complaint is not without foundation against the backdrop of the governor’s penchant for using state radio and television stations through inciting press releases to instigate public anger, thus creating grounds for his supporters to launch attacks against his opponents.
“On Monday, a member of the House of Assembly, Gboyega Aribisogan, was on the Federal radio Progress FM inciting people and threatening to invade the offices of the State office of the Department of Security Services over the arrest of the members of the House of Assembly,” Omotoso said.
He added that for a governor renowned and versed in employing intimidation and violence to cow his opponents, “Fayose began his onslaught on the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday when his agents destroyed our gate and lock in their traditional manner of intimidating members of APC”.
“We are also in possession of information that the governor has started mobilising the local chapters of PDP on plans to storm the office of the DSS in a violent protest over the arrest of PDP suspects by DSS in Abuja.
“We also have it on good authority that the governor plans to use Niger-Delta militants who will work with local thugs to attack APC members in their homes and going by the recent wave of killings of River state APC members, we cannot sit down and gloss over this evil plan. He did it successfully during the House of Assembly election last year and during the House of Assembly crisis last year using the same set of men he is mobilising for his next orgy of violence in Ekiti State.
“And to ensure that he carries out his plot, Fayose has met with the leaders of the drivers’ unions in his drive to cause violence on a massive scale against APC members.
“Knowing and understanding the violent nature of Governor Fayose, the APC members will have no choice than to employ self-defence to ensure security and safety of our members,” he concluded.
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