Ekiti APC Victory Party Turns Awful

Victory party organized by members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti yesterday turned awful as it was allegedly disrupted by gun weilding hoodlums who in the process destroyed five vehicles belonging to the members and an operative of the Department of State Services.

The hoodlums allegedly attacked the party’s secretariat shortly after its members held a victory procession a the party’s secretariat in Ajilosun area of Ado Ekiti to mark the victory of its presidential candidate, Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential poll.

The party’s spokesman, Hon Taiwo Olatunbosun, who spoke about the incident, accused Governor Ayodele Fayose and the Police of complicity in the attack, saying the party had earlier got information that plan was being hatched by some top officials in the government house to prevent any celebration in the State.

He accused the governor of sending those he described as members of a killer gang after the party members with intention to stall the celebration of the party’s victory at the poll.

But Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Idowu Adelusi has dismissed the claims as unfounded and untrue. Olatunbosun said it rather sounded unfathomable that hoodlums could attack the Secretariat even when the Divisional Police Officer of the Ologede Police Station in Ado Ekiti and some of his men were on guard to ensure that things didn’t snowball into violence during the procession.

The APC Spokesman said the hoodlums brandished guns , cutlasses and axes , which forced party members and passers-by to flee in different positions, to prevent being caught in the web.

He said those that perpetrated the nefarious act allegedly came in three Hilux Vans with government house number plate, who after disembarking from the vehicles shot sporadically into the secretariat and destroyed some of their property.

“We had few members left when they came because some of our teeming members who held a peaceful victory procession were already leaving before they came. They shot at our secretariat Olatunbosun mentioned one Femi Ogunyeye(aka Akilapa) , Basiru Ajagbe, Ayo Terrorist and Opeyemi Atiaro, as the mastermind of the alleged heinous crime.

“We were awatre that they were coming but we never knew Governor Fayose could do anything funny because of the mood of the nation. Though, we heard him boasting that he won’t allow any to mark the victory of Buhari in Ekiti State”.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, who confirmed the attack said: “We received information that APC headquarters in Ado Ekiti was being attacked and I deployed a team of police there led by Assistant Commissioner of Police . And they succeeded in flushing out the miscreants that came to carry out the act.

“We are still making efforts to make arrest. We have information about those that came and we have arrested one of them and we are making efforts to ensure that we arrest others . Our timely arrival scared away the miscreants.

Debunking the allegation that some of his men allegedly supervised the attack, Lakanu said: “ I am telling you categorically that my never will never been involved in such a dastardly act. It was a mere exaggeration”.