Oodua Nationalist Coalition (ONAC), the pan Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, has alleged that the Presidency was mobilising militants for the governorship elections in both Ekiti and Osun states.
The group, in a release signed by Tolu Adeyanju, its director of Publicity, and sent to journalists in Ado-Ekiti alleged that a close ally of the Presidency had been commissioned to do the recruitment.
It further alleged that the said Presidency agent was involved in a controversy involving some students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, recently where some students sustained gunshot wounds.
However., Chief Gboyega Aribisogan, drector of Media and Publicity, Ayo Fayose Campaign Organisation, who described the allegation as untrue, said “outsiders has no reason to come to Ekiti on the day of election to do anything. And we want to make it clear that we don’t have interaction with the Niger Delta people, so this is a lie.”
Aribisogan added that “as a matter of fact, we suspect that the Group is the brain behind such evil intention because we never knew the group. It is faceless. For them to have had such in mind means that they are the one planning to rig the poll.”
ONAC called on the Minister for Defence, Alhaji Ahmed Gusau, to investigate the shooting at OAU students by soldiers attached to a certain Niger-Delta militant.
The group described the shooting of innocent students by the Federal soldiers attached to an individual as “state-sponsored terrorism” saying the authorities must investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the conscious and deliberate assault on the peaceful students of one of Nigeria’s oldest and most celebrated centres of learning.”
“We have received information that the Niger-Delta militant is in the Security Committee of the Osun and Ekiti PDP aspirants,” ONAC alleged.
The group warned that the Yoruba people will resist with “everything possible” what looks like the almost irreversible determination of the President Goodluck Jonathan to supervise the rigging of the June 21 and August 9 polls.
ONAC said Nigeria runs the risk of an implosion if the impunity and ruthless attacks on innocent civilians by security operatives under President Goodluck Jonathan continues unabated.