Security agencies have been alerted to the moves being
made Gov. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State to disrupt Saturday’s
Governorship/House of Assembly elections in the entire South-West by instigating widespread violence.
Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko
In
a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by the National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressive Party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
alleged that the governor has already met with the thugs, who have been
trained specifically for the purpose of disrupting the elections, at
Oshodi-Isolo in akure and Iro in Akure South Local Government Area.
The party also said Mimiko gave the group of thugs at each location 350 million Naira for their devilish assignments.
”The
strategy is to deploy these thugs to various parts of the South-West
with the express instruction to violently disrupt elections through
sporadic shootings and stealing of ballot boxes. This is the Governor’s
answer to the massive shellacking he received from the electorate in the
region in general and in Ondo state in particular during the March 28th
presidential elections.
”The fear of the thugs have
already sent many APC leaders, who have been targeted for attack,
scampering for safety. While some have gone underground, others have
relocated either from Ondo State or from the region entirely. There is
also the report circulating in Ondo State in particular that the
Governor has deployed thugs to every polling unit to cut off the hands
of anyone who is suspected to have voted for the APC during the
elections.
”These
developments do not augur well for a free, fair and peaceful elections,
hence the need for security agents to face the challenge posed by the
hired thugs squarely,” the statement reads on Vanguard.
APC
said the thugs have already started unleashing violence, killing one
person at a rally in Igbara-Oke in Ifedore local government area of the
state on Wednesday
”Since his embarrassing loss at the March
28 elections, Governor Mimiko has almost become maniacal, hence his
resort to the training and arming of thugs, many of whom will don fake
police and army uniforms to disrupt Saturday’s elections throughout the
South-West and especially in Ondo state.
”It is
important to alert the sponsors of terror and electoral malfeasance that
whether or not they have immunity from prosecution, ultimately they
will be made to face the full wrath of the law to account for their
unbridled penchant for violence,” the party warned.
It
called on all APC members and supporters to be vigilant and to make sure
they document all cases of brigandage and rigging across the region,
while also alerting local and international observers to pay aclose
attention to the conduct of the elections in the region, as well as in
other flash points like Rivers State, on Saturday.
The
accusations and rivalries within and outside his party (PDP) are
growing. Last week Friday, old members of the, PDP led by the business
mogul, Bar. Jimoh Ibrahim
signed an accord with the Ondo state leadership of the APC to work against Mimiko.
Ali Olanusi, the deputy governor of Ondo state,
has described Mimiko as a “dictator” and “emperor” who always wants to be in charge of almost everything in the state. Ali Sanusi defected from the PDP to APC.
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