The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogun State Chapter has accused Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of keeping nest of cultists in the state, making reference to the arrested a member of the House of Assembly, Hon Damilare Bello under the platform of the opposition party over alleged cult activities.
Penpushing reports that Publicity Secretary of the ruling party, Comrade Tunde Oladunjoye stated this in a statement on Sunday and called on need by the security agencies to investigate further in order to make more arrests and stem the tide of cultism in the state.
The statement commended the recent arrest of the lawmaker representing Sagamu Constituency One at the State House of Assembly, and five other notorious cultists wanted by the security agents at his (Bello) official residence in Abeokuta.
Penpushing further reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) urged the security agencies not to leave no stone unturned in its investigation of the recent cult violence in Sagamu and other parts of the state.
“Cultism is a menace that deprives the society of peace; kills and maims cult members and even the innocent non-members, cutting down the youths at their prime. It cannot be tolerated, no matter whose ox is gored”, the statement said
‘It is no longer a rumour that notable members of the rag-tag PDP in the state are involved in cultism as high-ranking members in their various local government areas. We urge the security agencies to track and monitor the type of meetings the so-called honourable members are holding, hosting and presiding over in their constituencies”, Oladunjoye wrote
‘The PDP after it’s ramshackle petition at the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, after losing all its 11 petitions in the national assembly elections against APC, has resorted to high level of absurdity in its vain attempt to distract the administration of Prince Dapo Abiodun’, the statement added.
‘It was therefore, not surprising that the PDP rushed to town, via preemptive paid adverts, to cry wolf over the recent unwholesome and violent cult clashes in Sagamu and attempted to mischievously tag the APC’, the statement said.
‘It shamelessly tried to link its failure at the polls with the cult clashes. it therefore became ironical when the top brains behind the Sagamu cult clash, after fleeing Sagamu, became the “special guests” of the PDP House of Assembly member, who was using his official quarters to provide cover for the Sagamu escapees’.
‘Suddenly, the PDP that urged the security authorities to do their jobs, is now blackmailing the same authorities when its House of Assembly member and other top cultists have been arrested in the residence of the assembly man’.
‘It is most shameless that the PDP even pronounced that no weapon was found on the cultists, against the discovery by the Department of State Security (DSS) that effected the arrest of the senior cultists’, the statement added.
‘Our position that there have always been a strong hand behind the Sagamu violence, especially the burning of more than ten banks purportedly over naira-swap protest, has been vindicated. No amount of lies and blackmail should deter the law enforcement agencies from bringing the culprits to book’, Oladunjoye emphasised.
‘Part of the strategy of these top members/sponsors of the cults, especially in Sagamu, has been to travel out of the country when the planned clashes are being effected, and later return to claim alibi. It is a pattern that could easily be verified by the investigators.
‘The wizard cried yesterday and the child died today, it is not too difficult to trace the killer of the child. In Ogun State, for the cultists and their sponsors, the chicken has come home to roost. The PDP cult masquerades are being unveiled and the security agents should go the full hog’.
Penpushing also reports that it is recalled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which earlier confirmed the arrest of its lawmaker over alleged cult activities, said the arrest was political intimidation of the ruling party.
The Public Relations Officer of the opposition party Akinloye Bankole, in a statement admitted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not object to the arrest by the security agency in investigating the Sagamu cult war, but argued that such investigation should be done professionally.
‘As much as we do not object to DSS or any security agency investigation into the Sagamu carnage which has allegedly claimed more than 25 lives, we think that the investigation is not being conducted with optimum professionalism and sincerity’, Bankole wrote
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