We Are Under Attack By PDP Thugs – Ijesa APC

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ijesa-South Fed Constituency in Osun State have called on the inspector general of police, Suleiman Abba and the national director of the Department of State Security (DSS) to rescue them from political thugs allegedly hired by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The APC members said they were being incessantly attacked by the PDP hoodlums who used the residence of the Osun East senatorial candidate of the party, Francis Fadahunsi as an abode and torture centre.

Addressing a press conference in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, acting chairman of the APC campaign committee in the federal constituency, Idowu Korede stated that about seven members of the party have sustained grievous injuries from attacks by PDP affiliated thugs.

Among the seven victims, according to Korede, is Honourable Folarin Fafowora, a member representing Ilesa West state constituency, who was violently attacked on January 30, 2015 at Isokun Roundabout, Ilesa.

According to Korede, the PDP’s thugs who were on rampage, regularly abduct loyalists of the APC in the federal constituency and take them to Fadahunsi’s house in Ilase, Obokun local government area of the state, where they do unleash terror on and later hand them over to the police.

He alleged that Fadahunsi and some PDP chieftains in the state had held a meeting on January 14, 2015 where they concluded on kidnapping notable APC members, massive arrest of the members and destruction of the APC campaign billboards.

Korede further alleged that the PDP chieftains also planned at the meeting to deploy armed thugs to Atakumosa east and west to threaten eligible voters in order to deter them from exercising their voting rights on the Election Day, adding that almost all the billboards of the APC candidates have been destroyed.

He said: “A member of our party, Omoniyi Dotun was attacked at Iperindo in Atakumosa east local government by PDP thugs who were led by Ikotun Olaoluwa (BOND) purported to have been anchored by Fadahunsi on January 28, 2015.

“On January 30, 2015, Honourbale Folarin Fafowora, a member representing Ilesa west state constituency and Phillip Sunday Ademola, were attacked by some people led by a notorious thug that has been declared wanted by the police on several occasions, Sunday Akinyemi, popular called “Yellow” and Solo who are known members of the PDP at Isokun, Ilesa.