The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has said Governor Ayodele Fayose should be held responsible for various acts of violence in the state.
The APC said the current spread of violence in the state capital had the imprints of the usual government-orchestrated violent acts to achieve a pre-determined end.
Reacting to the recent violent acts rocking the state, the APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, regretted that Ekiti State people were used to the government-inspired violent acts, which they experienced between 2003 and 2006 during Fayose’s first stint and so there was little to worry about on the same pattern of serial violence that was rocking the state to achieve a purpose.
Olatubosun said: “We had on several occasions raised the alarm over importation of thugs who are quartered in the Government House. Since their arrival, Ekiti State has slid to the era of one day one trouble that characterized Fayose’s government between 2003 and 2006.
“Eminent lawyer, Femi Falana, also raised the same concern, calling on the governor to send away his thugs to allow peace to reign in Ekiti State.”
The party sympathised with Hausa traders, who it described as victims of government-inspired violence to create a sense of insecurity to enable the governor device extra-security measures that would allow him achieve a predetermined end.
The APC spokesman urged the security agencies to consider treating the party’s petitions on various acts of violence by the thugs kept in the Government House and device a means of ending violence in Ekiti State.
The APC spokesman added: “We recall various unprecedented attacks on our members, their houses, our office and tearing or burning down of the posters and billboards of our candidates during electioneering campaigns over which we petitioned the National Human Rights Commission.
“After the elections, kidnappings began. Now is the time for urban violence pitting the thugs against Hausa traders to create ethnic tension that has potential for national crisis while at the same time the governor is planning to inaugurate the new House of Assembly on June 1 to create anarchy.
“It is regrettable that we are back to the era of one day, one trouble that marked out Fayose as a man that thrives in violence.”
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