- Calls out attack on Oshiomhole, Abubakar
THE Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) camp is worried about a purported plot to scare voters in Edo State by staging attacks on prominent members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), such as Senator Adams Oshiomhole, in order to gain control of the party.
The plot, according to PDP sources, follows feelers of a plot by the APC to engineer a police state ahead of the governorship election, the PDP officials claim, will allow the APC to manipulate the election.
Credible sources in the PDP allude to what they say as feelers of reports that Senator Adams Oshiomhole and the minister of the Niger Delta, Abubakar Momoh, were recently attacked in Edo State.
A PDP source, while denying the claim, said that Oshiomhole was neither attacked nor harassed as being claimed.
“We are hearing that Oshiomhole and the minister of Niger Delta were attacked in Edo North. We are shocked to hear such a fabrication, as we know that nothing like that happened, so the rumour or whatever it is, is a complete fabrication.
“At best we know that it is all part of the plot by the APC to instigate a police state that will allow them to manipulate the election.
“You remember that a former APC vice-chairman, Chief Francis Inegbeniki, who recently dumped the APC because of their candidate, has also revealed that while he was in the APC that the party had been plotting to rig the election. We believe that this is part of the plot.
“We can assure Oshiomhole and the few people following him that Edo is safe and we challenge his candidate to go anywhere to speak on what he wants to do for Edo.”
Speaking on Arise News television on Thursday evening, Mr. Ighodalo expressed concern over what he alleged was the bias by the police against his supporters.
He alleged that several of his supporters had been arrested, some for weeks, without being charged to court.
“In the last couple of weeks, the police have been arresting our supporters without basis. The principle of the law is that if you arrest somebody, you should charge them to court within 24 hours and if you don’t find anything to charge them, you release them.”
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