Senator Iyiola Omisore
The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has raised the alarm over the alleged utilization of masked armed men as security sentinels by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore.
The APC, in a verbalization issued on Saturday by its Director of Research, Publicity and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, verbally expressed that while security agencies were battling to liberate Nigeria from the prehension of terrorists, the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state was inspiriting terrorism by utilizing masked ‘terrorists’ as his security sentinels in his campaign in Osun State.
A photograph sent to our correspondent by the APC showed a masked man with a gun behind Omisore.
The ruling party asked security agencies in the state to investigate the utilization of masked armed men by Omisore.
The verbal expression read in part, “The PDP governorship candidate, Iyiola Omisore, has introduced the terrorist culture of armed masked men in his campaign in a flagrant public gesture intended to daunt the electorate.
“Omisore was spotted during his campaign proximately sentineled by a masked, suspected armed terrorist, the first of its kind to be optically discerned anywhere in the political history of electioneering in Yorubaland.
“The APC observes that while President Jonathan fights armed and masked terrorists in the North with Nigerian soldiers, the inversion is being done in Osun, by Jonathan’s man, obnubilating behind security cover to daunt the electorate with masked and armed suspected terrorist sentinels.
“Political terrorism has arrived in Nigeria’s democratic space by the evil construct of the PDP.”
The spokesperson of the APC in the state alleged that the PDP’s “desperation to acquire victory perforce of arms” rather than the votes of the people had commenced to manifest limpidly.
The APC verbally expressed that the PDP’s resort to terrorism and electronic manipulation of the voting process would fail because it was not the wish of the citizens of Osun State to supersede Aregbesola’s excellence in governance with a clueless character.
The APC additionally verbally expressed it aurally perceived through the grapevine that the PDP had brought bales of fake police uniforms with substantial arms into the state with the intention to assail party bellwethers.
But Omisore, in his replication to SUNDAY PUNCH enquiry gainsaid the allegation of utilizing terrorists as security sentinels.
The media aide to the PDP candidate, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, verbalized his principal’s security sentinels were policemen, operatives of State Security Service and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and not terrorists as being claimed by the APC.
He verbalized, “We all ken the style of APC is to incriminate others whatever is their orchestration or intention. If they are genuinely concerned about the security men in Omisore’s campaign, they should contact security agencies to ascertain and stop playing to the gallery.
“In the campaign train are men from the SSS, the Police, Civil Defence. PDP will never preach violence neither do we rely on thugs to win election.”
Copyright PUNCH.
