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Musiliu Obanikoro
who has just lost the governorship primaries to his strongest opponent, Jimi
Agbaje, in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is still baring fangs and claws.
He has accused Chief Olabode George, and the governorship candidate of the
party in the state, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, of recruiting armed thugs to achieve their
aims at the governorship primary held on December 8.
Obanikoro said: “I also saw the police recovered five guns and
rounds of ammunition and live cartridges from the thugs brought by Chief
Olabode George and Mr. Jimi Agbaje, a co-aspirant.”
This is contained
in an affidavit he filed before a Federal High Court in Abuja, in support of
his suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/994/2014, challenging the conduct of the December
8, 2014 governorship primary in which Agbaje was declared as the winner.
He said there were
806 delegates accredited for the primaries but “surprisingly from the 806
accredited delegates, the electoral officers returned a total number of 866
votes.”
He added that the
accreditation of delegates which ought to last between 8am and 12pm, as
stipulated by the Electoral Guidelines published by the PDP, did not start
until as late as 6.30pm.
In an affidavit
personally deposed to by him, Obanikoro stated, “That the thugs earlier brought
by Chief Olabode George and Mr. Jimi Agbaje, a co-aspirant, at this point began
to disrupt the venue by throwing bottles, stones and firing gunshots in the
direction of the delegates loyal to me and preventing other delegates loyal to
me from entering the venue.
“That the gunshots
attracted another detachment of policemen, who engaged the thugs in a gun and
tear gas battle during which many of the delegates loyal to me ran for their
dear lives to avoid being caught in the crossfire between the police and the
armed thugs.
“That I know as a
fact that many of my delegates who ran for their dear lives in the ensuing
violence and gun battle never returned and were consequently disenfranchised,
as it took the police several hours to restore some semblance of normalcy.
“That I saw that
the police recovered five guns and rounds of ammunitions and live cartridges
from the thugs brought by Chief Olabode George and Mr. Jimi Agbaje , a
co-aspirant.
Punch
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