Thugs attack monarch’s palace    9/4/2009
     

From Odunayo Ogunmola, Ado-Ekiti

[b]An attack by thugs on the palace of the Elesure of Esure-Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun Council Area, Oba Adebanji Ajibola, has triggered recriminations between the Ekiti State chapters of the Action Congress (AC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The AC yesterday accused the PDP of sponsoring the attack on the palace because of suspicion that Oba Ajibola is an AC sympathiser.

But the PDP denied the allegation, saying it was false.

The AC, in a statement, said Oba Ajibola escaped from the hoodlums.

According to the statement by the Director of Communications, AC Governorship Campaign, Mr. Yemi Adaramodu, the thugs attacked non-PDP members, burning down their property.

The party identified one of the victims as Mrs. Caroline Egunlusi, a member of the state executive of the party whose shop was razed.

The statement alleged that the thugs conducted a house-to-house search for former PDP members who had just defected to the AC.

"It is the style of the PDP to attack non-PDP members any where it took its campaign to while its thugs would sack the town thereafter. The PDP had carried out attacks on AC members in Okemesi, Ido-Ekiti, Igbole, Osi, Ifishin, Aaaye, Ifaki, Odo-Oro, Ikole and Igede.

"We have it on good authorities that the thugs are housed at a popular hotel on Ilawe Road, Ado -Ekiti.

"The thugs, who are about 25 operate with three buses. Leaders of the thugs are two jailbirds just released from prison last week," the AC said.

But the PDP Director of Communications and Strategy, Mr. Jackson Adebayo said: "The allegation by the AC is just another display of perfidy through misinformation and turning the truth upside down.

"It is a shameful exercise for the AC to always accuse the PDP whenever its members unleash mayhem on the people of Ekiti like what they did at Esure and other places when the AC thugs armed with guns and cutlasses attacked us.

"The latest allegation is an attempt to blackmail the PDP."

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