Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun
The
All Progressives Congress federal lawmakers from Ogun State on Sunday
raised the alarm over an alleged plan by Governor Ibikunle Amosun to use
thugs to disrupt the party’s rally scheduled for Tuesday and turn round
to blame it on them.
Three senators, including Gbenga Kaka
(Ogun East), Gbenga Obadara (Ogun Central) and Akin Odunsi (Ogun West)
and the seven members of the House of Representatives, in a joint
statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday, alleged that
the governor planned to use his supporters to disrupt the APC rally
slated for Tuesday and turn round to accuse them of carrying out a
reprisal over Thursday’s shooting incident in Wasimi.
The National Assembly members therefore appealed to the relevant security agencies to prevent the plan to soil their names.
The lawmakers, who described themselves
as “harbingers of peace and progress,” said they were not in any way
opposed to the planned rally by Governor Amosun.
They noted that in spite of last
Thursday’s attack on them and their supporters at Wasimi in Ewekoro
Local Government Area of the state, they remained ardent believers in
politics without bitterness.
The National Assembly members’ statement
reads, “It has come to our notice that Governor Ibikunle Amosun has
scheduled a rally for Tuesday, January 21, 2014. While we are not averse
to his rally, we have been reliably informed that he plans to have some
of his hoodlums masquerade as the opposition and cause disruption of
same so as to claim that it was a reprisal.
“Although the disruption of the meeting
held at Wasimi on January 16, the attack on our lives, those of our
aides and party members left us abused and hurt, we do not believe in
politics with bitterness since an eye for an eye policy would soon make
the whole world go blind.
“Despite all these, we have no intention whatsoever to disrupt Governor Amosun’s rally.
“Consequently, we are calling on all
security operatives to join forces and put all hands on deck to prevent
the perpetrators of this evil act … which the governor has put in place
to soil our good names …”
Similarly, another member of the House
of Representatives, Abiodun Akinlade, has accused Governor Amosun of
being desperate to retain the state’s governorship office in 2015.
Akinlade, representing Yewa South/Ipokia
Federal Constituency, made the allegation while reacting to the recent
spate of violence that had attended the activities of the APC in the
state.
Efforts by our correspondent to get the
reaction of the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Sola Lawal
and the Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, proved
abortive.
Lawal and Olaniyonu neither picked the calls to their phones nor replied the SMS sent to them.
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