The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti
State said that Governor Ayodele Fayose was not sincere with his threat
to arrest the thugs that have been attacking innocent persons in the
state.
The party accused the governor of inviting the thugs to the state to foment trouble.
The APC, in a statement by its Publicity
Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, on Sunday, alleged that the thugs, known
as “Fayose Boys,” had been terrorising members of the opposition and
other innocent citizens of the state since he assumed office.
“It would amount to ‘use and dump’ for
the governor to denounce the thugs he invited to the state to foment
trouble,” the APC said.
The
APC said that for the governor to distance himself from the hoodlums
was a dishonest denunciation of the youths he raised for various acts of
crimes and violence in the state .
The governor, in a statement by his
Special Adviser on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
had raised the alarm over some people attacking innocent residents of
the state. The thugs claimed that Fayose sent them.
Olayinka called on the security agencies and residents to help in arresting the criminals claiming to be Fayose’s boys.
But Olatubosun said the governor’s
threat to deal with the hoodlums was a face-saving measure to distract
people’s attention from his complicity in promoting violence in the
state.
The statement read, “It is diversionary
to threaten the hoodlums with the police that the governor has been
using to provide cover for the hoodlums to perpetrate their crimes
against the opposition in the last nine months.
“It is an irony that Fayose is denying
ever associating with his thugs in the wake of intra-party violence that
rocked the PDP in the state in the last three days, leading to the
shooting of the state secretary of the party, Dr. Tope Aluko.
“We as a party have written many
petitions to the security agencies over the menace of thugs in the
Government House by Fayose. The thugs have been enjoying cover from the
police and they have been attacking members of the opposition in many
towns in the state.”
The APC spokesman regretted that even
though the security agencies got the petitions, they had not arrested
any of the hoodlums for all the atrocities committed against the
opposition in the state.
The statement added, “Fayose’s thugs
have attacked the APC secretariat many times, destroying many vehicles
and injuring many APC members in the process. Despite knowing their
identities, the police have not arrested any of the hoodlums but have
been giving them cover on the instruction of Governor Fayose.
“The violence which the PDP unleashed on
the state three days ago is a confirmation of our earlier claim that
the PDP is a party that harbours thugs, and a breeding ground for
miscreants. The open brandishing of weapons by thugs loyal to the two
PDP factions is an indication that the state is not safe for anyone.
“We also wish to remind the police that
Fayose’s special adviser and a commissioner ,who were once caught with
guns, axes, petrol and acid, were released on the orders of the governor
without charging them to court, and so there is no way Fayose can claim
innocence with the gale of violence in the state.
“We call on the Inspector-General of
Police, Solomon Arase, to act now before the state is plunged into
anarchy as many innocent citizens are becoming victims.
“This is the time for the police to also
act on the petitions our party had written on the nefarious activities
of Fayose’s thugs. We particularly implore the police to investigate the
role of Fayose’s men and some police officers who give cover and
coordinate the thugs to attack innocent members of the opposition.”
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