Fayose led thugs to attack me -Senatorial candidate

The All Progressives Congress candidate for Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Amb. Gbenga Olofin, has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of leading thugs to attack him on Friday.
He also alleged that the governor supervised the tearing and destruction of his posters and billboards in all the local government areas of the district.
In a statement made available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, Olofin said the “Fayose-led thugs, who were armed with dangerous weapons, including axes, cutlass and guns among others,” unleashed terror on major towns
across the district.
He said, “The thugs, who masked their faces, were conveyed in Hilux vans with Ekiti State number plate, ransacked shops and houses at Iyin and Igede Ekiti, inflicted matchet wounds on innocent people while carrying out their heinous acts in daylight.
“The thugs, who shot sporadically to air, injured people and also looted shops and houses in the area.”
Olofin, who said he escaped the attack by the whiskers, called on security agencies in the state to brace for the current security challenges in the state to prevent the loss of lives and property.

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He described the attack on innocent people in the state as nothing but “a desperation of a drowning person”, saying no amount of attack would prevent people from voting for APC in the state.
The APC candidate said the people of the state had made up their minds to vote for APC in the state and that “no amount of intimidation, harrassement, poster tearing and billboard destruction can change the will of the people.”
He urged the people of the state to remain steadfast and more determined to actualise the needed change in the state and Nigeria as a whole.
But the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has said the various allegations of attacks by the APC were just to draw undeserved sympathy from the public.
Reacting to Olofin’s allegation, the State Secretary, Dr Tope Aluko, wondered when the APC would “stop living in a dreamland and face the reality” of campaign.
Aluko said, “Is it billboards and posters that win elections for candidates? APC thrives in mischief and propaganda and they did that and failed last June. Ekiti people have detected their penchant for lies and blackmail.
“Governor Ayo Fayose and PDP leaders are not interested in their campaign of falsehood and calumny and we are on the field selling our candidates to the voters. Let APC continue to live in the past and when they lose even more woefully than they did last June, maybe they will wake up from their deep slumber.”