Oyo APC chieftains condemn attack on party secretariat

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Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State have described an attack on the new office of the Lagelu Local Government Area chapter of the party as a condemnable, saying the development signalled the plot of some people to reintroduce violence into the politics of the state ahead of the 2023 general election.

The facility, located in the Iyana Church area of Iwo Road, which was recently acquired for use as the office of the APC, was scheduled to be inaugurated later this week.

However, some unidentified men visited the place late Saturday evening, vandalised the building and destroyed items there.

Speaking on the incident, the APC zonal chairman for Ibadan Less City, Chief Kunle Sanda, in a phone conversation with the Nigerian Tribune, blamed the attack on those he called desperados who felt uncomfortable about the efforts of the opposition party to reclaim power in the state in 2023.

Sanda said: “From our preliminary investigation, we gathered that the attackers visited the new office twice on Saturday with a mission to destroy everything there. They first came around 9.00 p.m. with a rickety taxi cab which they drove recklessly with a view to causing panic. It was when they came the second time at around 11.00 p.m. that they carried out their nefarious attack on the facility.

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“We have taken necessary actions by reporting the development to the appropriate security agencies. However, we would like to state that all those responsible for the cowardly act would be fished out and made to answer for their crime. The damage they did was too enormous to be overlooked.”

Another stalwart of the APC in Lagelu Local Government Area, Mr Sikiru Adebayo, expressed dismay over the level of destruction carried out on the office by the attackers.

He alleged that the same set of people who move around the state capital (Ibadan) to destroy billboards belonging to members of the APC and other opposition parties were responsible for the incident.

Adebayo said: “The attackers had sounded a note of warning to some artisans who were engaged to fix the structure earlier in the week as they could not hide their dissatisfaction with an opposition party opening an office in that place.

“Nevertheless, we are not discouraged by their antics and I can assure members of the general public that all attempts to overrun our party before the next general election will be resisted.”

Adebayo who is a former special assistant (political) to the late governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, then called on the relevant security agencies to begin a clampdown on all political thugs.

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