Ondo State Governor, Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, has ordered safety businesses to analyze and arrest those that allegedly destroyed the billboards of some governorship aspirants and attacked members of the All Progressives Congress throughout President Bola's go to Tinubu to the state.
The President had visited the household of former Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and the Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye in Owo, in addition to the nationwide chief of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure. Wednesday.
Throughout Tinubu's go to, each the Olusola Oke Marketing campaign Group and the Wale Akinterinwa Marketing campaign Group accused Aiyedatiwa's supporters of destroying the posters and billboards.
Aiyedatiwa, in a press release issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Ebenezer Adeniyan, on Friday denied the allegation and condemned violent actions.
He mentioned: “Because the Governor has repeatedly mentioned, any political marketing campaign that disturbs the peace of the state is unacceptable and should be met with decisive motion by regulation enforcement businesses.
“It’s pertinent to make clear that nobody related to the Governor or Authorities of Ondo State was concerned within the reported actions attributed to 'political thugs' throughout the President's go to to Owo and Akure.
“The Governor has, subsequently, requested regulation enforcement businesses within the state to arrest and prosecute anybody discovered to be concerned in such violent actions. The Governor urges politicians and their followers to make sure that their campaigns are issue-based, free from blackmail, spreading falsehoods, inciting the general public and intimidating opponents.”
The Administrative Secretary of the Oke Marketing campaign Organisation, Mr Braveness Oladele, mentioned on Friday: “What ought to have been an exciting welcome and celebration of the President’s go to was became a theater of violence and bloody assaults on our supporters and others APC members awaiting the arrival of the President.
“Now we have thought that the darkish days of brutality and politics of violence are over and that the day ought to by no means come when a supposed chief of humanity will reenact the bloody expertise of the previous.
“It’s in mild of the above and the necessity to attract the eye of Mr. Governor to the disgraceful and undemocratic actions of those components, who wore vests and caps together with his (Aiyedatiwa) photograph and identify, to induce my supporters traps.”
Equally, a press release by the Director of Publicity of the Wale Akinterinwa Marketing campaign Organisation, Mr Segun Ajiboye, mentioned lots of the APC members have been injured by the suspected thugs after they destroyed Akinterinwa billboards.
“The thugs, who openly fired gunshots into the air to create confusion, proceeded to commit destruction as they attacked properties, whereas billboards of different gubernatorial aspirants have been defaced, pulled down or rightly destroyed.
“Get together members perceived as loyal to all governorship aspirants, excluding Governor Fortunate Ayedatiwa, suffered accidents of varied and different nature because of the assaults unleashed on them. T-shirts, faze caps and different insignia worn by members of the supposed aspirants have been torn to shreds.
