The
Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola and the candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party in Osun East Senatorial District, Mr. Francis
Fadahunsi, have accused each other of being responsible for the
political violence which broke out in Ilase and Ibokun in Obokun Local
Government Area of the state on Friday.
The governor, in a statement in Osogbo
on Sunday by his media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, said that hoodlums
suspected to be working for Fadahunsi unleashed terror on members of the
All Progressives Congress in Ilase when he (Aregbesola) went to pay
homage to the Ilase monarch. Fadahunsi, who is an indigene of the town,
is contesting against the candidate of the APC in the senatorial
district, Mr. Jide Omoworare.
Aregbesola condemned the alleged attack
on the APC members and said a female member of the ruling party in the
state survived the attack but had one of her ears slashed with a
machete.
Aregbesola’s statement read, “The
governor had gone to Obokun Local Government to campaign for his party
and its contestants for various positions when the PDP members attacked
the APC members.
“We, as a party, are responsible and
peace-loving. We are loved by the people. It is those who do not have
electoral value that will attack the same people they ought to patronise
for votes.
“We are popular and we are on ground.
This people resort to violence, because they know that they don’t have
the support of the people.
“We, however, remain undaunted. We will
not be cowed by anybody in the state. In the last four years, my
government has restored peace to the state. We call on security agencies
to be proactive and deal with anyone, whose sole agenda is to cause
violence in the state.”
However, Fadahunsi, who spoke to our
correspondent through the spokesperson for his campaign organisation,
Mr. Sola Olowoye, debunked the governor’s allegation and accused the APC
thugs of using the covering of the governor to unleash violence on the
PDP members.
Olowoye said, “It is a lie that
Fadahunsi sponsored attack against the APC members. Fadahunsi is very
popular in the town and this is because he has impacted the lives of the
people positively. The APC was seeking to cause trouble in the town
because they are aware that their party is not popular there.”
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