Ajimobi vows to deal with perpetrators of political violence

The Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has said that his government was predicated on peace and tranquility and would not hesitate to visit the full weight of the law on anyone who breaches the peace of the state.
Ajimobi made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, in reaction to a campaign violence alleged to have been visited on some Accord Party faithful on Thursday.
The statement said: “In the last two years, Senator Ajimobi has demonstrated that he is a man of peace. The large-scale infrastructural and urban renewal that our administration has been known by could only have been made in an atmosphere of peace. If there is anything we are trying to do in Oyo State and which we have done successfully, it is a paradigm shift from the gangsterism and violence of the past two governments before us, to an era where our people, no matter their party affiliation, can move about freely.”
The governor said that the full weight of the law would be brought on anyone who was trying to wind back the hand of the peaceful clock in the state to the forgotten era of brigandage and violence of the past.
According to him, as the Chief Security Officer of the state, he would not stand by and allow his most intangible achievement in office to be compromised by anyone.
Ajimobi said that he is in contact with the Commissioner of Police to ensure that whoever was involved in violence, no matter their political party affiliation or standing in society, was arrested and punished.
“Peace is this government’s greatest asset. But for peace, road dualizations in all the nooks and crannies of Oyo State and a major urban renewal never known to the state would never have been. This is why we would not leave any stone unturned in ensuring that violent people never come back to our state,” he said.