Ondo Poll: Campaign Group Accuses PDP Of Planning To Unleash Terror

By Ayodele Oni

Tapping from the victory recorded by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Edo state governorship election, The Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers Independent Council (LACO-FSIC) has alerted the public to an alleged attempt  by the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to cause crises ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

It described the Ondo PDP as too desperate for power and that it was determined to get it through coercion and violence.

The campaign body in a statement issued on Tuesday by its State Director of Information, Mr Kayode Fasua, said this was made evident by the state PDP’s reaction to the defeat of the party in Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State, by the All Progressives Congress.

It said the state PDP had been brimming with  brimstone and fire, following the loss of in Edo, thus issuing panicky statements on self-imagined plan by the APC to rig the coming election in Ondo State.

“While it is within the right of the PDP handlers in Ondo State to sulk over the loss of their party in Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State, it is, however, absurd and ridiculous that the party in Ondo State could be contemplating war ahead of a governorship election that is still two months away.

“The expression issued by the PDP that ‘we thus sound a note of warning to those whose trade is the compromise of ballot that danger looms if they seek to tamper with our votes’, deserves to be investigated.

“That statement is not only preposterous but a clear signal that the PDP in Ondo State is plotting to unleash crises in its desperation for victory.”

The LACO-FSIC spokesman, however,  tasked the opposition PDP to toe the decent path of issue-based campaigns, rather than engage in plots to cause mayhem in a society under the rule of law.

“Not a few people across the state have taken cognisance of how the PDP in Ondo State gambols around with thugs brandishing various weapons in the course of their campaigns, apparently hoping to sail through to victory without any news on what they intend for the transformation of our dear state.

“But as for Governor Aiyedatiwa, he has been going around supervising infrastructural projects and implementing human empowerment programmes, which have delayed the take-off of his campaigns.

“Certainly, the discerning and wise members of the public won’t fritter away a golden opportunity to stick to a performing governor, and go cast their votes for apparent brigands and joy killers.

“Not wanting to downplay the latest threats from the PDP, we thus urge appropriate security agencies to keep the party’s war-mongers on their watchlist.”