Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been accused of being the string puller in the attack of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the state, Engineer Ade Adetimehin and other stakeholders of the party on Wednesday.
The Tuesday’s attack at the party’s Secretariat during a political meeting ahead of today’s APC nationwide congress left many chieftains injured including the chairman who alleged that his two handsets, wristwatch and the sum of N210,000 were forcibly removed from his pocket by the political thugs.
Beaten to a pulp was Engineer Adetimehin’s driver with the likes of Ademola ljabiyi, Saka Yusuf, Otito Atikase, Muyiwa Asagunla, Akin Sowore, Rasheed Badmus ,Yetunde Adeyanju ,Sola Ajisafe, Dr Koka Ademujimi and Chief Bode Sunmonu having their own shares of the manhandling.
In an interview with newsmen the victims attributed the thugs’ action to the Ondo governor with former Commissioner for Community Development and Cooperative Services, in the state, Mrs. Yetunde Adeyanju, who was also attacked saying: “I was at the venue of the meeting. I saw everything that happened. I went there to attend the meeting. But to our surprise, thugs came and they were shouting, we are from Aiyedatiwa.
“They specifically mentioned Aiyedatiwa. That Aiyedatiwa sent them and they will not allow any Congress to take place in the state. They stated that the governor is in charge.
“The governor is the leader of the state and the governor is in charge and nobody can query the authority of the governor, and anybody that wants to talk about Congress in Ondo State will be assassinated.
“So you can see that our lives are in danger. It has never been this bad in the history of Ondo State.”
