FAYEMI CAMPAIGN ORGANISATION CONDEMNS ATTACK ON JOURNALISTS

The Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation has condemned the attack on journalists at the Labour Party campaign rally in Ikere-Ekiti, describing it as the peak of irresponsibility and the height of desperation on the part of the perpetrators of the attack.

In a statement by its spokesperson, Dimeji Daniels, the organisation said under no circumstances should journalists who were carrying out their constitutional responsibility be attacked in the name of politics.

Some hoodlums had attacked correspondents of AIT and vandalized their outside broadcasting (OB) equipment at the LP rally.

The Fayemi campaign organisation, which sympathized with the journalists, said it stood logic on its head for any reasonable person to attack harmless newsmen whose major job is to serve as the voice of the voiceless.

The organisation called on the leadership of Labour Party to always caution followers of the party who have been involved in series of violent attacks in almost all the communities their campaign train has visited.

Some of the communities which have been forced to drink from the LP's orgy of violence include Okemesi, Ido-Ile, Aramoko, Ipole-Iloro, Ilawe, Itaji, Ilupeju Igbemo and Egbe.

The Fayemi Campaign Organisation noted that just as in the other towns mentioned, the Labour Party members also unleashed terror on APC members during their rally in Ikere-Ekiti on Saturday and in the process attacked journalists covering the rally and also destroyed the outside broadcasting (OB) equipment of AIT which broadcast the rally live on its channel.

It condemned the orgy of violence, saying the pattern had also been adopted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on both the Labour Party and the PDP to eschew violence in the build-up to the June 21 governorship poll.