June 18 election: APC imports fake military, thugs, locates them in different towns-Segun Oni Campaign Organisation alleges

The Segun Oni Campaign Organization, SOCO, has raised the alarm over the importation of thugs and fake military operatives into the state by the leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The fake military operatives and thugs, accirding to SOCO, were located in some major towns and villages like Ilupeju-Ekiti, Otun-Ekiti, Ilogbo-Ekiti, Oke-Ayedun, Ijero , Okemesi-Ekiti, amo g others.

In a statement made available to journalists in Ado Ekiti, on Sunday, the Director of Media and Publicity, Segun Oni Campaign Organization, Mr Jackson Adebayo, pointed out that a meeting of all the chairmen of local government as well as local council development authority was held last week where the message was passed to them that they would be receiving the fake military men and thugs by this week preparatory to the election.

Adebayo explained further that the council chairmen were equally directed to provide materials that will make them comfortable including toiletries at the hideout where the thugs and fake military men were kept.

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He narrated how a memo was raised in Oye local government for the council chairman to contact the Ilupeju Ekiti development union for the release of the town’s civil center for about thirty ‘shoulders’ who were to operate in Oye and its environs, saying that such arrangements were also made in Otun Ekiti where a landlord on Otun – Omuaran road was contacted to release his building for the housing of the fake army and thugs.

Adebayo added that it was only in Ijero areas where they had been arguing whether to house them in Ara Ekiti or Ikoro Ekiti but the fear of one Kayode Ojo had made them to reject Ikoro Ekiti as an option.

According to SOCO, the first assignment given to the council chairmen was to use the thugs in unleashing mayhem in their various locations while it was basically instructed that leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) should be their targets.

The organization expressed its disappointment in the government of Ekiti state and the ruling Party for embarking on this dastardly and unholy strategy in an election that they would loose, maintaining that it was very sad that the government was just deliberately creating insecurity in an already volatile state.

“We call on our traditional rulers to, as a matter of urgency, call the leaders of the All Progressive Congress in their areas to order before they destroy the peace of their community in the name of politics.”

SOCO equally called on the Chief of Army Staff to investigate the involvement of some Army operatives who had been contracted to provide cover for the fake army and thugs.

“We want to state emphatically that this is not a rumor that these council chairmen were seeing at their areas in the last three days with military man in their vehicle in a move that suggested that they were being shown the nooks and crannies of the communities in their areas for the proposed operations.

“It would be recalled that it was the military that the leadership of APC used to detain one of our leaders at Ayetoro Ekiti while the all the request and effort to secure his release has proved abortive since,” SOCO stated.