Joseph Bakare
The All Progressives Congress, Ekiti State chapter has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, and the Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, over the wanton destruction of the campaign billboard of its governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, in Oye Ekiti on the orders of Governor Ayodele Fayose.
Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday in Oye Ekiti, headquarters of Oye Local Government Area, descended on a huge campaign billboard of Fayemi at St Augustine Secondary School and destroyed it, while being cheered by other members of the party.
The APC in a petition to the Police IG and DG DSS and dated May 23, 2018, accused Fayose of being the mastermind of the attack on the bill board.
It also called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of those involved in the destruction of the billboard.
The party, in the petition signed by its State Secretary, Paul Omotosho, alleged that the APC and its supporters had been under various forms of attacks by Fayose’s goons since he became governor of the state on October 16, 2014.
It said Wednesday’s attack on the APC candidate’s billboard was allegedly carried out by the Chairman Oye Local Government Council, Alonge Sunday; Oye Local Government PDP Chairman, Sunday Ojo; and the Councillor for Oye Ward II, O. Odeyemi, among others, acting on Fayose’s order.