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Following the recent Ekiti Gubernatorial Election in which the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Kayode Fayemi— despite having the advantage of incumbency — lost to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), some troubling news have filtered out of Osun State where the next gubernatorial election will hold on August 9, 2014. y The situation in Osun is somewhat similar to Ekiti as an unpopular incumbent APC candidate is also squaring off with a popular PDP candidate. Out of fear that their Osun candidate may lose in a free and fair contest, as happened in Ekiti, reports in major newspapers indicate that the APC is training thugs to unleash mayhem on Osun State.
Specifically, the New Telegraph recently reported that the Osun State chapter of the PDP said it had uncovered plans by the APC “to cause mayhem before and during the governorship election slated for August 9.” The report further stated that, “PDP Director of Publicity and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, who raised the alarm in Osogbo, added that Aregbesola has started recruiting thugs to make his plan a reality. He said Governor Rauf Aregbesola is now creating a nest of thugs in a desperate move to instil fear in the electorate, following APC’s loss in the Ekiti election.”
According to the New Telegraph story, “Some of the APC thugs unleashed terror on members of the party in Ibokun, Ifewara, Iwo, Ilesa and some towns in Oriade Local Government areas.” Another part of the story stated that, “The report of these attacks on members of the party (PDP) have been lodged with police authorities in the towns where the attacks were carried out and those who sustained varying degrees of injuries in the attack are receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital for security reasons.”
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Source: #MyOpinion
