Gunmen shoot at Ekiti APC members

Crisis returned to Ekiti State on Wednesday as gunmen
attacked the All Progressives Congress Secretariat and
jubilant members of the party.
The APC members had just returned from the streets of Ado
Ekiti where they had gone to celebrate the victory of the APC
candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in the
Saturday’s Presidential election.
The state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, who
addressed journalists in Ado Ekiti after the attack said the
gunmen came in three Hilux vans with Government House
registration number and three men in police uniform sitting
in the front.
Accusing Governor Ayodele Fayose and the Police of
complicity in the attack, he said the party had earlier got
information that plan was being hatched by some top
officials in the Government House to prevent any
celebration in the state.
He alleged that the gunmen were members of a killer gang
sent to disrupt the APC victory party by the governor.
But Fayose said the attack was a self-sponsored attack by
the APC to make it look like an attack from outside, urging
the people to disregard the allegations.
Olatubosun wondered why the hoodlums attacked the
secretariat unchallenged in the presence of a detachment of
police led by the Divisional Police Officer of the Ologede
Police Station, Ado Ekiti that had provided security for the
APC.
According to him, the gunmen brandishing guns, cutlasses
and axes, rained bullets on the secretariat and destroyed no
fewer than five cars parked at the secretariat.
Olatunbosun mentioned Femi, Basiru, Ayo and Opeyemi as
the alleged leaders of the attack.
The intensity of the attack, he said, forced party members
and passers-by to scamper for safety.
“We had few members left when they came because some
of our teeming members who held a peaceful victory
procession were already leaving before they came. They
shot at our secretariat.
“We were aware that they were coming but we never knew
Governor Fayose could do anything funny because of the
mood of the nation, though, we heard him boasting that he
won’t allow anyone to mark the victory of Buhari in Ekiti
State,” he said.

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