Ogun Tribunal: Toyin Amuzu condemns attack on PDP, wants police to fish out perpetrators
OGUN TRIBUNAL – The alleged sponsored attack by political thugs of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) on members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP) at the ongoing Governorship election petition tribunal, sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, has been condemned in its entirety, with a call on the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) to direct investigations into the security lapses and fish out the perpetrators of such dastardly act.
An Egba Chief and the PDP House of Representatives Candidate in Abeokuta South Federal Constituency in the last election, Chief Toyin Amuzu who made this call, described the attack on Otunba Segun Sowunmi and other members of the party as ‘a barbaric act, typical of an emperor who is loosing grip’ .
Chief Amuzu said “the attack by the APC was aimed at instilling fear, disrupting the proceedings of the Tribunal, creating a siege mentality on the people and the Judiciary so as to truncate the delivery of justice in the Petition filed by the PDP governorship candidate, Hon. Ladi Adebutu, against the manifest rigging of the Ogun State Governorship election in favour of APC candidate, Governor Dapo Abiodun.
According to him, the hoodlums were mobilized by APC leaders who are in mortal fear that the APC’s manipulations and rigging in the Ogun State Governorship election will be exposed at the Tribunal.
Chief Amuzu noted that the attack by the APC is a direct assault on the institution of the Judiciary, the Election Tribunal and a serious threat to the sustenance of Democracy in our country and dear State.
He said, it was more worrisome that the attack by the APC on innocent Nigerians occurred in the full glare of police operatives and other security agents, who made no attempt to arrest or stop the APC hoodlums noting that such scenario is indicting on Nigeria’s security authorities and this requires urgent attention.
In his words, Chief Amuzu said, “Ogun State is known for peace, civility and high standards. No one should turn the state into a theatre of war and violence. The people of Ogun State demands that those behind the attack must be tracked down and brought to book immediately”.
“The people of Ogun State and the PDP will never be deterred or cowed by the APC to give up the legitimate and constitutional pursuit for the recovery of the mandates freely given to our Party in Ogun State”, he said.
Chief Amuzu called on all members, supporters and people of Ogun State to remain calm but at alert and ready to use every means within the ambit of the law to resist the APC, in its plots to disrupt the Tribunal and subvert the course of justice in the matter.
