Can there be any logical reasoning, in a situation where as a result of every moves geared towards winning election, campaign posters are being destroyed.?
The reason behind this question is not far fetched, as I find it hard to believe the allegation made against Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), stating that the governor has been destroying campaign posters of its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, and other APC candidates for the 2015 general elections.
Besides, the opposition party also alleged that Fayose had recruited members of a faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), through the leader of the ruling Peoples democratic Party (PDP) faction in the Assembly, Dele Olugbemi, to unleash attack on its members and secretariats in the state.
APC through the Ekiti State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun argued that, "Ekiti is in a political turmoil, crisis, hostility, pandemonium, harakiri, unrest, instability, and we believe all the security agencies will view it seriously.
"Today, our candidates are finding it difficult to move freely on the streets of Ekiti. It is even a big issue for us to be in the office."
Olatunbosun, while stating that the party had petitioned the National Security Adviser, security agencies, President Goodluck Jonathan and royal fathers on the ongoing violence in the state without any response, maintained that, "We have paid to signage (agency) the required fees. The first letter we got from them was after the campaign of their own presidential candidate.
"Before then, they never raised any issue. They have the record that we have paid to paste posters. We are law abiding citizens, having met the condition, should they recruit members of the OPC to start removing our posters?"
However in reacting, Special Assistant (Information), to the governor, Lanre Ogunsuyi, posited that the allegations were figment of the imagination of the APC.
According to him, "The day they applied for the use of the stadium is the day approved for them.
"Do they want us to campaign for them. Whatever problem that is thrown on their way, they should see it as there is time to sow, there is time to reap.
"If they (APC) had been friendly to political parties, they would not have left that burden of intolerance behind."
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