By Oludamisi Ojo.
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Engr. Segun Oni, has warned the ruling All Progressives Congress against deploying political thugs to rig the June 18 governorship poll.
He said the fallout of such a desperate tendency could attract kidnapping and robbery to the state.
Oni, the Social Democratic Party’s governorship candidate, urged the APC to learn from the banditry that had characterized the nation.
This development, hinged on the event of the 2015 presidential poll, when foreign mercenaries were said to have been allegedly brought to the country by politicians.
Oni spoke in Ado Ekiti, on Monday, in a statement signed by a group drumming support for his gubernatorial aspiration and acting under the auspices of Ekiti Build Back Better (EBBB).
Oni, in the statement signed by the EBBB Publicity Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, warned the ruling party against importing thugs into the state ahead of the June 18 governorship poll.
The EBBB maintained that Oni remains the choice of Ekiti voters and that no amount of desperation could change the mood in town.
According to the statement” The APC should learn a lesson from what his party did in 2015 by allegedly importing bandits as voters from neighboring countries to rig the presidential election, only for the thugs to stay back and became bandits, formed terrorist gangs, kidnapping and killing Nigerians,” the group warned.
“The security agencies in Ekiti should not fold their arms and allow “thugs, cultists, fake soldiers, fake police, fake voters and fake drivers” from being imported into the state to disrupt the peaceful conduct of the poll.
“Ekiti should not be made a state where thugs will settle after election and start kidnapping and raping our peoole. We must be vigilant and play by the rules, it is for the interest of all of us because kidnappers know no political party”.
Adelusi said that the APC leadership had been boasting of having the control of the state money to fund Campaign Organisation set up for their candidate, Biodun Oyebanji.
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He said” Killing , maiming of people because of election is undemocratic. It was I’ll never help the system and the end result will not benefit even those planning to unleash mayhem on Ekiti, so they must beware”.
Adelusi said the new electoral law recently passed is an albatross to the APC which had always used fake police to be scared of voters.
He warned politicians against going to other states and having secret meetings in Kogi, Ondo and in the state plotting to rig the election knowing well that its candidate cannot win the June 18 election.
