GOVERNORSHIP POLLS: OGUN ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS SEEKS DEPLOYMENT OF MILITARY

‘We are finally asking President Muhammadu Buhari who has said in his acceptance speech that he is going to strengthen the presence of security people, to also make sure that soldiers are dispatch to Ogun state. We are not saying they should be at polling booth, but they should be at strategic places to disregard any trouble makers because the intelligence report we have is that violence would be carried out in the presence of police officers who will not do anything’,Oladunjoye stated.

‘We are worried by the desperation of the State Governor in his bid to install his preferred candidate as Governor of Ogun State despite the clear signals from the last election that that project is a fail project.  I will also wish to remind you that in the past, both our party and various leaders of our party including Governorship aspirants have raises alarm at various times on security situation in Ogun State’.

‘ Our party also called on Inspector General of Police to set up an independent panel to examine and investigate rising political violence in Ogun State since October last year till now.  It is regrettable that up till now, we have not even received an acknowledgement of our petitions and complaint from the police’. 

‘It is not that we just said it by mouth, we wrote a letter and it was acknowledged and we have the acknowledgement copy, but till now we are yet to get good response from the police authority.  The President came to town and his entourage was stoned openly in broad daylight, no single arrest has been made.  We therefore express serious doubt about all the ability of the present Police Commissioner to bring to book of that police officer. 

‘If the President can be stoned in broad daylight and no arrest was made.  We are asking the IGP not only to transfer the Police Commissioner away from Ogun State for the period of this election. And those who stoned Mr President at the Stadium should also be arrested. We also sympathize with the family of the deceased police officer.

‘Of course, our Governorship candidate is also a prime target from the report we got this morning. He is a prime target up to the level of his polling booth. The Governorship candidate is likely to be attacked. Last time, when we said he is going to be attacked, they said is a lie, we got this report this morning that he is going to be attacked’,Oladunjoye emphasised.

‘We want the President to dispatch soldiers to Ogun State.  Ogun State is a flash point. Ogun State has three Commissioners of Police for the last election and still a police officer was killed and that was an election that does not involve much contest among the parties, it is not about local politics and we have a desperate Governor.

The noted that, for Governor Amosun to have resolved to join the campaign team of the the opposition Allied Peoples Movement(APM), afte his own party, All Progressives Congress(APC) supported him to win the Senatorial election, shows his(Amosun) level of ingratitude

‘For the Governor to be supporting APM, I just want to say that it is a sign of ingratitude for our members of APC that were persuaded to work for him, support him by Aremu Osoba. It is now open that he is not sincere in his touted support for Buhari’.

‘APM has his own Presidential candidate in the last election who scored 36,000 votes nationwide. 33,000 out of the 36,000 votes came from Ogun State.  This simply means 33,000 APM people voted against Buhari in Ogun State despite the loyalty and ‘first son’ of Buhari being touted by the Governor. We are now telling our people that in the next election, there is no sharing of vote, it is APC at the Governorship and State Assembly level’, Oladunjoye said.