The Ogun State Government has declared that the defeated governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Ladi Adebutu, has questions to answer with law enforcement agents to clarify his role in alleged political violence in Ikenne Local Government during the recently concluded council poll.
Penpushing reports that Governor Dapo Abiodun made this known through his Special Adviser on Media and Strategy Kayode Akinmade in a statement issued on Monday, adding that contrary to Adebutu’s allegation that the Governor was moving round with military personnel during the election.
The statement added that contrary to the claim of Adebutu, he was the one who illegally brought in 40 policemen from MOPOL 49 in Lagos and, along with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs on Okada, who were moving round with guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, attempting to snatch ballot boxes.
Penpushing further reports that Akinmade stated that one of the polling booths invaded was where the Vice Chairman of Ikenne Local Government, Hon. Muhammed Olaitan Efuwape was about to vote and was shot alongside one other voter by illegal policemen allegedly brought by Adebutu to aide his rigging machine.
The statement described Adebutu’s claim as tissues of lies, explaining that immediately after the Governor voted, headed home straight, where he was until the election, after which he decided to return to Ondo State where the governorship election had just taken place.
Penpushing also reports that the statement said Adebutu is a drowning man who is finding someone to drag with him into the abyss pointing out that Ogun State has not witnessed any political violence since Abiodun assumed office, a testament to his peaceful mien.
The statement added that enraged voters pursued the illegal policemen, who fled to the home of. Adebutu’s compound where they took refuge, stressing that rather than allowing the illegal policemen to be picked up Adebutu aided their escape from his house, while only four were arrested.
“Rather than allowing the policemen to be picked up, Hon. Adebutu aided their escape from his house, while only four were arrested. This individual is trying to assume the role of the Chief Security Officer of Ogun State and that is impossible’ Akinmade wrote.
‘It is in his own interest to cooperate with law enforcement officers by turning himself in, rather than trying to exonerate himself from the mayhem unleashed on the peace-loving residents of Iperu on Saturday’.
“It is laughable that someone whose political journey is on a downward spiral is alleging that voting did not take place in some polling booths in the State, when in actual fact the majority of Ogun residents trooped out in their number to exercise their electoral franchise’.
“As a professional clown whose own running mate said he would have been a disaster as governor, Adebutu spun wicked lies like the current one during his case at the election petitions tribunal, and right up to the Supreme Court where he was brutally bludgeoned for his egregious falsehoods.”
Penpushing reports that Akinmade described Adebutu as a “sore loser who is yet to come to terms with his electoral deficit and polarized political structure, however, counselled him to turn himself in to law enforcement agents to clarify why he brought in illegal policemen to aide his rigging machine.
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