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  • Europe-based Ekiti indigenes arrive for Fayemi’s campaign

    Europe-based Ekiti indigenes arrive for Fayemi’s campaign

    Indigenes of Ekiti State based in Europe are now arriving in Nigeria to support the re-election campaign of the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi.

    Leading those who arrived in Lagos at the weekend is Convener of the Ekiti Diaspora in Europe (EDE) 2014, Femi Awoniyi.

    Awoniyi is scheduled to lead the Diaspora campaign team for Fayemi.

    In an interview with reporters, he disclosed that the group decided to support Fayemi’s re-election because “there is nobody out there with his track record.”

    According to him, “EDE 2014 is mobilising Ekiti abroad to drum support for Fayemi, owing to its conviction that the ongoing transformation process in the state must be consolidated to maximise benefits for the good of Ekiti people.

    “We are very passionate about the work he has done for our state.”

    Awoniyi, who is a Germany-based journalist and the publisher of the international bimonthly magazine, The African Courier, said many Ekiti in the Diaspora had taken unpaid holidays to travel home at their own expense to join the Fayemi campaign.  Most volunteers, he said, would travel to their local government areas to campaign for “continuity of progress under the motto, Forward Ekiti.”

    Awoniyi listed Fayemi’s achievements as including the improvement of roads, rehabilitation of schools, distribution of 76,000 laptops to students and teachers, the social security scheme for elders and the provision of clean potable water.

    He noted that the state had become the largest producer of cassava in the country as a result of the administration’s agriculture development programme.

    “Nowhere else in this country has that kind of transformation been accomplished within such a short period of time,” he said

    He stated that on his various trips to Ekiti, he saw “first-hand, the results of Fayemi’s work. Everywhere you travel to in the state, you can only marvel at what were achieved – the good roads, the clean looking schools, the freshly renovated  and equipped health centres, the borehole and overhead tanks providing clean water to rural communities – you see the touch of government everywhere.”

    According to him, “many investors have made a decision to do business in Ekiti and are only waiting for Fayemi to be re-elected for them to come in and break ground.”

     

  • APC welcomes LP’s defectors

    APC welcomes LP’s defectors

    Labour Party (LP) in Ekiti State, at the weekend, suffered a reduction in party membership strength when over 1000 dumped its fold for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

    The defectors, who were led by a former deputy chairman of the party, Mr. Ojo Ademola, included Mr. Adedamola Tayo, Ojumoola Olayemi, Comrade Sola Ajayi, Mr. Peter Ademilua and Faleyimu Ademilua.

    The defectors said they were leaving the LP because its national leadership had sold the party to the highest bidder, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, without recourse to any democratic principle and the party constitution.

    The former deputy chairman of the party, who spoke on behalf of the defectors, said the so-called present members of the LP in the state were a few disgruntled PDP members who Bamidele brought with him when he joined the LP.

    He added that “original members of the party had all left due to the commando-like manner in which Bamidele hijacked the party structure.”

    Ademola said he was shocked when Bamidele, who was complaining of being muscled in the defunct CAN, joined the LP and out of desperation to contest the governorship election in the state, threw all cautions to the winds by subverting democratic principles to install his cronies who were hitherto PDP members as executive members of his new party.

    He added that they chose to join the APC because of the unrivalled performance of the incumbent governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who, according to him, is the only governorship candidate in the state who has demonstrated seriousness through the public presentation of his second term manifesto.

    The other candidates, he said, have been busy trying to mudsling the governor and have not been able to tell the electorate in specific terms what they would do better if elected.

    “As far as I am concerned, they have been providing us comic relief. The other thing that I notice they have been doing is going about with imported thugs to unleash terror on Ekiti people,” Ademola said.

     

  • Understanding Ogun APC crisis

    SIR: I have lived in Ogun State since 1977 even though I am from Imo State. I can claim to know about the politics of the region as much as that of the South-east. Besides, I am a student of politics and history.

    At the heart of the crisis in the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the fear of election. I do not think the problem is strictly between the incumbent governor, Ibikunle Amosun and former governor, Olusegun Osoba. This is because, at every public forum that I’m aware of, the governor has always acknowledged Osoba as leader of the party, although by virtue of the APC constitution, the governor should be the leader. Equally, the former governor has spoken of the unprecedented achievements of the current governor. So the re-election of Amosun is not under any threat just as the position of Osoba as the party leader is not challenged.

    All over the world, there are tendencies within political parties and members usually gravitate towards one party chieftain or the other. But the current problem in Ogun is that current members of the National Assembly from the state want to retain their position in 2015. They gravitate towards Osoba and, from all indications, have his support. However, there are other aspirants who believe the NASS members have performed below expectation and therefore must be replaced. These aspirants claim they have the sympathies of Amosun.

    But from what I gathered authoritatively, Amosun has not supported anyone for any slot. What he wants is a level-playing field where the current elected office holders, including himself can contest against other aspirants within the party. This is the crux of the matter. The incumbent office holders don’t want election but selection.

    All the talk about parallel ward congress on April 5 is a lie because a few days before the election, Osoba and Amosun worked together and also they jointly monitored the election. It was an open contest, free and fair. But since the loyalists of the NASS members did not have the upper hand, the talk of division and parallel congress began to rent the airwaves. Till date, nobody has been able to tell us the exact location of any parallel ward congress in Ogun on April 5.

    The current talk of non-forgiveness, non-harmonisation, and non-reconciliation is unhelpful to the cause of democracy and internal democracy within political parties, except, of course, this people all along had “hidden agenda”. Unforgiveness is neither in the Bible nor Koran.

    Then people should stop name-dropping. The real Awoists are those who do what Awo did or stood for. If you love with your heart the masses, declare free education, revive agriculture, including farm settlements, construct durable roads and bridges, declare free health, provide security of lives and property, etc. then you are the true Awoist, and the majority of Yoruba will always support such a person, come rain come sunshine. It does not matter whether you ate with Awo, slept on the same bed with him during his life-time or not.

    All lovers of democracy should accept elections, go for primaries. The losers should congratulate the winners and vice versa, because in a contest between members of the same family – as Amosun was quoted to have said recently – ‘there are no victors, no vanquished.”

    • James Ikechukwu

    Owerri

     

  • APC condemns killing of Emir of Gwoza

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday condemned the killing of the Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Timta, by suspected Boko Haram gunmen. The party described the sect as the nation’s enemy, and not a group set up by some imaginary opposition parties or elite to bring down the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

    In a statement in Lagos, its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the killing of the Emir is the clearest indication yet that the Jonathan administration misdiagnosed the Boko Haram menace from the outset.

    When the indiscriminate activities of Boko Haram insurgents are placed side by side with other facts: that the group started in 2002 when Olusegun Obasanjo was President and flared in 2009 when the late Umar Yar’Adua was President, one would realise how deceitful and diversionary it is for anyone to portray it as an attempt to make Nigeria ungovernable under Jonathan.

    “Boko Haram is not a northern response to a southern presidency, as some would have us believe. Boko Haram is an enemy of Nigeria; whether Christians or Muslims, southerners or northerners, the lowly or the elite, the young or the old, the poor and the rich. They must be seen for what they are: fringe elements who happen to have linked up with other terror groups around the world to acquire training and weapons which they are now using to terrorise a whole nation.

    “That Emirs, who are Muslims and symbols of power in the North, can be so dastardly attacked, with deadly consequences, should convince those who would rather engage in the blame game than fight the bandits that what the country faces is neither a strictly religious nor elite war, and make them to change their jaundiced mindset.

    “If indeed Boko Haram was sponsored by the so-called northern elite against Jonathan, how come they are not even sparing the same elite? If indeed Boko Haram is sponsored by the North against Jonathan, why are their deadly attacks concentrated in the North, where they have killed thousands and destroyed facilities and infrastructure worth billions?

    “Let us all see Boko Haram for what it is, and come together as a people to fight the insurgents, rather than engage in denial, blame game and finger-pointing that can only weaken our resolve as a nation to tackle this fringe group squarely,” APC said.

    The party said the insurgency has festered because the government started off by not seeing it for what it is, thus losing valuable time to combat it, adding that when it started dawning on the government that the nation faces a serious problem, it responded by seeking to make political gains out of it.

    ‘’Those who saw Boko Haram, erroneously, as a political trump card have now suffered a boomerang, and today the Jonathan administration is seen globally as incompetent, clueless and rudderless largely because of its inept handling of the Boko Haram insurgency, especially the unfortunate abduction of innocent school girls which has lingered. This is what you get when you play politics with a serious national problem,” it said.

    APC restated its demand for a national security conference, as different from a gathering of all parties, to help forge a common front against Boko Haram.

    “We also reiterate our offer to join hands with the government in a non-partisan effort to battle the menace of Boko Haram, even though the government has yet to reach out to us since we made that offer,” the party said.

    Also yesterday, Senate President David Mark, decried Timta’s murder.

    Mark was quoted in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Paul Mumeh, in Abuja, as saying: “This unabating  bloodshed is senseless and needless.”

    The Senate President also renewed his appeal to Boko Haram to listen to the voice of reason and drop its weapons in the interest of peace and unity.

    Consoling the government and people of Borno State, he prayed that God would expose the perpetrators of the crime.

    Mark also urged the security agencies not to be deterred by the challenges but to be strengthened more in the battle to defend the country.

  • Adeleke defects to APC in colourful ceremony

    Adeleke defects to APC in colourful ceremony

    First civilian governor of Osun State and former Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in the Senate, Isiaka Adeleke, yesterday defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) with thousands of his supporters.

    Adeleke, a former chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was received with his supporters by the APC leaders, including the party’s national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, as well as Governors Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti).

    The colourful ceremony was held at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park.

    Addressing the huge crowd, Akande congratulated Aregbesola for Adeleke and his supporters’ decision to come into the APC.

    He noted that Adeleke’s father was a renowned progressive politician with immense contributions, adding that he was glad to join other APC leaders to receive the former governor into the party.

    Among the defectors that followed Adeleke into the APC were Mufutau Ayinde, Kamoru Adegoke, Kamoru Ajisafe, Bashir Salam and others.

    All of them said they resolved to leave the PDP because of the violent nature of many of its chieftains and join the APC because of its progressive nature.

    They also cited the performances of Governor Aregbesola as another decider for them.

    Adeleke and his supporters were formally received and given the APC flags in place of that of the PDP, which was burnt.

    The former governor narrated how he was violently attacked by the PDP governorship candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore; Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, and others at a public function.

    Adeleke, who said he did not have any problem with the PDP, maintained he left the party because he found it difficult to work with the criminals whom he said dominated the PDP in Osun State.

    He said: “I can never work with criminal and violent people. My advice for the people of Osun State is that they should not vote for the criminals. They cannot do better than Aregbesola.”

    Acknowledging Aregbesola’s performance, he assured him of his support for the second term.

    Aregbesola berated the PDP for misrule, saying the people of Ede are progressive and cannot work with “those who have got nothing to offer them.”

    He recalled the late sage Obafemi Awolowo’s prophecy that “the good people would be separated from the bad” and noted that Adeleke’s defection has made the prophecy very relevant.

    Some of those in attendance at the event included the interim national legal adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire; the APC acting chairman in Osun State, Elder Adebiyi Adelowo; the governor’s wife, Sherifat; members of the National Assembly and the state House of Assembly and others.

     

  • I’m still in APC – Audu

    Former Governor of Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, has debunked speculations that he has dumped the All Progressives Congress for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

    The former governor in a chat with The Nation said it is the job of political idlers to claim he has dumped the APC because he stood alongside the state governor, Captain Idris Wada, during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kogi Unity House in Abuja.

    Dismissing the claims, Prince Abubakar said he was not in the mold of “bread and butter politicians” who move from one party to the other, saying he has been friends with the incumbent governor for about 40 years and will not shy away from associating with the common interest of Kogi people.

    He said: “I remain in APC, I have been a friend to Governor Wada for about 40 years and when a party has won in an election I will not say I no longer belong in the state, all that is for political jobbers and idlers who have nothing to offer.

    “When a party wins in an election, it is incumbent on all to join hands and move the state forward. Do you see that, in say America that when an incumbent wins in an election, all other opposition should deny them?”

    Asked about his seeming endorsement of Wada and implication of hobnobbing with the PDP governor, he called for discernment, saying he was not one to jump from one political party to another.

    He said, “I am one politician that has never left my party for another. Governor Wada came to visit me and nobody said he dumped PDP and I wonder where all these came from. I remain in APC and nothing can change that.”

  • Boko Haram kills 54 in Yobe, Borno attacks

    Boko Haram kills 54 in Yobe, Borno attacks

    •24 soldiers, 21 policemen dead •Cameroon troops at Nigeria’s border

    Boko Haram has attacked security agents in Buni Yadi, headquarters of Gujba Local Government, killing 24 soldiers and 21 policemen including a Divisional Police Officer (DPO), sources said yesterday.

    In attacks on two Borno State villages also on Monday, nine people were killed.

    Buni Yadi village has repeatedly come under Boko Haram attacks. It was there that sect members killed 55 pupils who were sleeping in their dormitory last year. It is 55 kilometres south of Yobe State capital, Damaturu.

    Residents said the hoodlums came into the town with one Armoured Personal Carrier vehicle (APC) and six Hilux vans, shooting in the air through the town as they headed for security formations where they lunched their dastardly attacks.

    The Joint Task Force (JTF) and the police in Yobe State have been reluctant to release the casualty figure but Police Commissioner Marcus K. Danladi confirmed the incident.

    “I am just coming back from Buni Yadi and I need to sit down to gather my facts together before giving it out,” CP Danladi said.

    Police spokesman Nansak Chegwam also said details of the incident were sketchy, adding that investigation had begun.

    Officials said 54 people were killed in the two attacks.

    Police constable Abdullahi Mohammed said the suspected Boko Haram members killed 24 soldiers and 21 policemen in the attack on Buni Yadi.

    A Borno State local government official, Nglamuda Ibrahim, said gunmen killed nine people in two remote villages, also on Monday night.

    Ibrahim said in Ashigashiya town the armed men shot at villagers, burned their homes and held control over the area and hoisted their white flags with Arabic letters.

    A source with the Joint Task Force also told VOA’s Hausa Service that 24 soldiers and 21 policemen were confirmed dead following the attack.

    The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the gunmen took away an armored tank and many vehicles.

    There has been no word on civilian casualties.

    A Hausa Service reporter who is in northeastern Nigeria said  militants were also attacking motorists on highways leading in and out of Maiduguri.

    Drivers said snipers wait in trees to fire at passing cars, which are then attacked by gunmen hiding in bushes by the side of the road.

    The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Hassan Thlama, a Superintendent, the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) were among those killed, it was gathered.

    The attackers stormed the town around 6:03 pm and unleashed terror on the security.

    A senior officer of Gujba Local Government, who pleaded for anonymity said the police barracks, the Divisional Police Station, and the military base in the area were burnt down.

    Other places razed by the insurgents include; the palace of the district head of Buni-Yadi, Alhaji Abba Hassan Muktar ,a personal houses and  the palace of the Emir of Buni-Yadi, Alhaji Muktar Ali Gangaran were also vandalised by the insurgents.

    Witnesses said the insurgents were armed with various weapons and petrol bombs.

    A resident said the attackers drove in pick-up trucks, armoured tanks and motorcycles.

    Abubakar (not real name) said the attack was clearly targeted at security operatives, unlike past attacks in which civilians also fell victims.

    He said: “We were shocked and terrified in the evening when a gang of armed Boko Haram burst into this town, chanting that they were here for the soldiers and policemen; and not the civilians. Don’t panic, we will not touch you. All of you are safe today (Monday). As they attacked the military posts, they proceeded to the police station, the magistrate’s court and our council secretariat complex; and put fire on them.

    “Some of the people, however, fled their houses and shops for safety, despite assurance of attackers not to kill anyone of them. Residents living near the police station and military posts however; fled to nearby bushes and farmlands.”

    It was gathered that security operatives moved to Buni Yadi to ascertain the impact of the attack. A top emergency security meeting was summoned by the state government in Damaturu, the state capital. Deputy Governor Abubakar Aliyu met with the Police Commissioner, the JTF Commander and the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) where he was briefed on the incident.

    Military and hospital ambulances were also sighted along Maiduguri road in Damaturu with heavy military escorts.

    Another village, Chinene in Gwoza Local Government, Borno State was attacked.

    Two churches, shops and residential houses were set ablaze.

    Chinene village is southeast and a border community with Cameroon, which is about 130 kilometres drive from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

    Cameroon yesterday began deploying large troop reinforcements to buttress its border with Nigeria against the threat posed by marauding Boko Haram militants, security officials said.

    “The deployment has begun. Today, soldiers have started being sent to the border regions,” a senior police official in the area told AFP on condition of anonymity.

  • PDP petitions police, alleges impersonation by APC

    PDP petitions police, alleges impersonation by APC

    •Let police investigate, says Fayemi’s group 

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has petitioned the police, alleging acts of impersonation by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    In the petition, the opposition party alleged that APC members were wearing Fayose/PDP vests and also riding in buses branded in PDP logo.

    The party accused an APC chieftain in the state of using the ploy to beat up many PDP members and causing mayhem in parts of the state.

    According to a letter written to the Ekiti State Police Commissioner by the PDP State Secretary, Dr. Tope Aluko, which was made available to reporters in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital yesterday, the party said the correspondence became necessary to enable the police investigate the allegation.

    Aluko said the APC had planed to use its thugs to impersonate PDP members by wearing Fayose’s vests and cause mayhem so that Ekiti people would think Fayose was responsible for violent activities in the state.

    He disclosed that vehicles were being branded in other parties’ colours at the Ekiti Government House and therefore, urged the police to act promptly in order to prevent the state from being plunged into anarchy.

    However, the APC, in a reply through its spokesperson, Mr. Segun Dipe, stated that the PDP was playing up one of its antics, noting: “The police have been given a job which it must move fast and do. The buses which APC is being accused of branding are said to be in Government House. Police should go there and expose the APC, simple”.

    Describing the allegation of a party member of wearing vests branded in the name of Fayose, which was being used to attack PDP members as “false, malicious and ill-thought out, Dipe added: “Police has a role not just to investigate and unearth the truth but equally to punish whoever has been found perpetrating injustice in whatever guise”.

    His words: “If APC was discovered to have been engaging in such, let there be no cover-up. But, if otherwise PDP was found to have cooked lies against us, let justice take its full course as well”.

     

  • Ize-Iyamu: Oshiomhole promised me governorship

    Ize-Iyamu: Oshiomhole promised me governorship

    A former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osagie Ize-Iyamu, said yesterday that Governor Adams Oshiomhole promised to support his governorship candidacy.

    He recently led some APC members to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    Ize-Iyamu, who spoke in a local television interview, said the APC has become an “animal farm” in the state.

    He said he joined the PDP because he believed that the party was the best vehicle through which he would reach his destination.

    Ize-Iyamu said there was a desperate move by the governor to dismantle his structures, adding that his problem with the governor was because he dared to speak the truth.

    His words: “The governor publicly and privately has come to me to say Pastor I appreciate the support you have given to me.

    “I know how competent you are. When the time comes I will support you to become the governor. If he denies it, it will completely show he is not a man of his words.

    “The issue is somebody has consistently promised me this but with the way the comrade has been going, by 2016, I don’t think there will be any APC again.

    “APC today has become an animal farm. Everything we condemned is still in place. The governor wanted to conduct the congress in an undemocratic way by asking me to take five wards and the deputy five wards.

    “He was so petrified about Ize-Iyamu being in control that he wanted me to become a minority.”

    But the governor in a veiled response said it was Ize-Iyamu who insisted that he should unilaterally decree him as the next governor.

    Oshiomhole, who spoke at the APC State Congress, said such person could not fit in the change taking place in APC.

    He said: “A rolling political stone cannot make a difference. Those who believe that their interest must come before the people there is no way they can fit into the logic of APC.

    “Those who insist we must do politics as usual where positions are appointed by one person, those who insist that I should unilaterally decree them as the next governor cannot fit in.

    “Those who insist I should appoint them as the chairman because they were chairman before, they cannot fit into the principle of change. We must assist them to move on. Those who insist that no man is God, may man continue to be their God.”

  • Fayemi’s, Fayose’s groups trade claims over ‘attacks by thugs’

    Fayemi’s, Fayose’s groups trade claims over ‘attacks by thugs’

    THE last may not have been heard about the spate of hostility unfolding in Ekiti State as the camps of two leading contenders in the race for next month election again accused each other of perpetrating violence.

    According to the All Progressives Congress (APC), suspected thugs of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ayo Fayose, allegedly descended on their members in Efon area of the state during a ward meeting with dangerous weapons.

    The ruling party in the state claimed that its members sustained serious injuries and many properties were destroyed.

    Also yesterday, the Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation (AFCO) alleged an attack on the convoy of the PDP candidate at Fajuyi Roundabout, Ado-Ekiti, by APC thugs.

    But narrating their own story, APC members said they were holding their ward meetings in the 10 wards of the town when PDP thugs started moving from one ward to the other attacking APC members and state officials who were around to monitor them.

    “The thugs were armed with axes, cutlasses, guns and charms. They dealt machete cut on one Babade Akinola from ward five. They also destroyed the house of the security man to the Local Government Chairman, Mr. Adio Folayan and beat up his wife. A female teenager who was hawking goods was beaten up because her parents are APC members.

    “As if that was not enough, the Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism, Chief (Mrs.) Aderonke Okusanya, a native of Efon went to the Police Station to lodge complaint but behold, right there and then in the presence of the Police  Area Commander, she was attacked with a knife by Fayose’s thugs and she could not be protected.

    “The knife tore her dress into pieces while her driver was stabbed in the mouth. The back windscreen of her vehicle was smashed and the car is still parked at the police station,” the party stated.

    Mrs. Okusanya was reportedly attacked by one Gbenga Alaga, a Fayose thug, while the windscreen of her car was also allegedly smashed by one Femi Okeya, who was said to be a Fayose thug.

    The party also recalled that after a Labour Party (LP) rally in Ikere-Ekiti at the weekend, some thugs who were reportedly working for Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele under the command of one Ade Basket shot a member of the APC, Otunba Femi Ayodele, in the neck. Ayodele is still receiving treatment for the wounds he sustained.

    The thugs also reportedly wounded many APC supporters and destroyed billboards of Governor Kayode Fayemi, the APC secretariat in Ikere and burnt the generating set there.

    “It is unfortunate that the police has been looking the other way while APC members are being attacked daily. The incident in Efon where a State Commissioner is attacked right in the presence of the Area Commander who could not protect her calls for concern.

    “We call on the security agents to be alive to their responsibility in protecting lives and property of our members while we appeal to APC members to remain calm in the face of daily provocation. Even though our members will not take laws into their hands, they may be left with no alternative than to defend themselves if the security agents could no longer do so,” the party stated’

    However, AFCO’s Director of Media and Publicity, Chief Gboyega Aribisogan, in another statement, accused some APC thugs of attacking Fayose’s personal vehicle at about 1p.m. at Fajuyi Park in Ado-Ekiti, believing that the PDP candidate was in the vehicle.

    Aribisogan claimed the thugs ran into the Government House immediately they carried out the attack.

    He stated that the APC-led administration in the state had concluded plan to attack any gathering of PDP supporters in the state.

    The AFCO spokesperson said a meeting was held on Saturday, where it was concluded that henceforth, “no PDP gatherings must be allowed in the state.”

    He said an attack on PDP members in Efon-Alaaye and Otun-Ekiti on Sunday, and yesterday’s attack on Fayose’s vehicle was an aftermath of the APC devilish plot.