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Ekiti APC crisis: President’s Adviser’s Ado-Ekiti home invaded by thugs, guard assaulted

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The political standoff between Ekiti Gov. Kayode Fayemi and Sen.  Babafemi Ojudu, the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President and some All Progressives Congress chieftains in the state, may have taken a turn for the worst as some people suspected to be thugs invaded the Ado Ekiti home of Ojudu on Thursday.

 

The thugs, according to Ojudu, stormed his house at 10.30 am led by the State Vice-Chairman of the party, Mr Sola Elesin, assaulted the guard, broke the lock to the premises and dumped 13 bags of 25kg rice.

 

“Let me just state here that this assault will not stop anything. I will continue to say the truth and demand that the resources meant for the people be spent on the people and nothing else.

 

“My surprise is that the man who sent them knows and should have informed himself I am never flustered by this kind of gangsterism. Not even the military could break me not to talk of a tin god on crutches.

 

“Stupidly they recorded their invasion and assault and celebrated it on social media. We got intelligence about this yesterday, and put the story out hoping they will be dissuaded. Alas they were not! Is this what has become of our state under Governor Fayemi? A state where a contest of ideas must descend into contest of foolery?

 

“My aides in Ado Ekiti have reported the incident to the police and made statements. I have asked that the pittance of a joke of rice they brought be given to the needy in the town,’’ the Presidential Adviser said in a statement entitled,“ This is beyond ridiculous’’, given to Persecondnews.

 

Ojudu recalled that in March 2020 after the lockdown, he and his friends bought 250 bags of 50kg rice, some semovita, wheat, spaghetti, 500 tubers of yam and distributed as COVID-19 palliatives to the people only for the thugs to dump 13 bags of 25 kg rice in his house.

 

“Does that really represented what was given to an entire state in March ? It was shared to people across the state and they were very happy and was well appreciated by beneficiaries. I gave strict instructions to my aides not to publicize this. After all, this was not unusual. It is an act of charity, which every good public official and Moslem is enjoined to do by our Holy Books.

 

“Fast forward to early June, I granted an interview criticizing the governor for running a single man government in our state and for underperforming.  The next thing was pressure on my Ward Executive to remove me from the party.

 

“Of course they resisted, saying I have not done anything to warrant it. They are still at it arm twisting the poor folks in the ward who unfortunately are my kinsmen.’’

 

On why he will continue to hold Fayemi’s administration accountable to the people, Ojudu said: “This is a democracy. It is incumbent on us all to continue to hold our governors to account and not BUHARI this, BUHARI that. Let the billions in allocations be spent on the people. Let us stop diversion of Federal Government palliatives to be sold in Lagos by cronies.

 

“Let the unexplainable of use of state resources to charter private jets weekly to Abuja stop. Our scarce resources must be spent on good roads, good hospitals and clean water not on scam projects like an airport to nowhere.

 

“It is time to do what is right and no amount of intimidation can stop that. God bless Ekiti and all that swell therein. God bless Nigeria.’’

 

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