A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Mr. Soji Bello, has described the accusation levelled him by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he heads a task force formed to molest APC members ahead of its planned road show in Ekiti State as “a blatant lie.”
Mohammed had, in a media report on Wednesday, accused Bello of heading a special task force designed to attack the supporters of the APC in the state and cause mayhem in the Hausa-dominated Sabo and Shasha areas of Akure, the state capital, ahead of the APC rally.
Bello said he is not aware of the existence of any such task force which the APC claimed he heads, adding that the opposition party is only preparing the minds of the people towards the failure of its planned road show like the flopped one-million-man march held in Lagos recently.
The PDP chieftain in a statement on Thursday said, “But for the state of confusion in the opposition, why should Lai Mohammed allege that a task force is being put up in Ondo State to disrupt a programme they are having in Ekiti State? Though I understand that they must find an excuse for their impending doom in the South-West, but how many of their supporters were attacked in Lagos before their march in Lagos on Saturday?
“The truth of the matter is that the opposition party does not exist in Ondo State in the first place, so they don’t have any supporter to chase around. But for the APC’s ignorance, they should have known that what is being insinuating cannot happen in Ondo State.
“The records are there to show that elections contested in Ondo State were without violence because the APC thugs recruited for that purpose were not able to operate as a result of the alertness of the security operatives in the state.”
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