Ekiti PDP,APC Bicker Over Attacks, Looting

The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party and its All Progressives Congress counterpart last Sunday engaged in a war of words over the breakdown of law and order in parts of the state.
While the PDP accused the Governor KayodeFayemi-led APC administration of sponsoring armed thugs to attack people and destroy property, the ruling party accused a faction of the opposition party of being the brain behind the violence and looting which followed last week’s peaceful #EndSARS protest embarked upon by youths.
PDP factional Publicity Secretary, Raphael Adeyanju, in a statement titled, “PDP accuses Fayemi of unleashing armed thugs on Ekiti people…says people being attacked will defend themselves if the government can’t,” charged the police to bring the perpetrators to book.
Adeyanju alleged among other things that “a guest house owned by a musician and former House of Assembly member, Dayo Akinleye (aka Dayo Maxima), was invaded last (Saturday) night by armed thugs led by one Marshal, where four persons were abducted and gunshots fired indiscriminately.
“The four people abducted by the thugs were dumped at the Police Headquarters in Ado Ekiti after they had been taken to the Government House where they were assaulted, are now being detained like criminals while nothing has been done to apprehend the thugs who attacked them.
“It will get to a point that the people will be forced to defend themselves if the government that should protect them is the one unleashing thugs on them and the consequences will not be palatable for anyone.”