After attack by thugs, PDP chieftain demands relocation of Ogun election tribunal

By Adejoke Adeleye/ Ogun

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Salvage together, PDP in Ogun, Segun Sowumi, has demanded the relocation of the reveal governorship election tribunal to Abuja for safety reasons

Sowunmi made the demand after he became once attacked at the premises of the tribunal on Monday by thugs allegedly precise to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

In step with him, relocation is a truly unprecedented due to the Ogun Issue is never any longer stable for political occasions that had file petition against Governor Dapo Abiodun and his Salvage together APC.

Sowunmi spoke to journalists in his home after he became once attacked at the gate of the premises which housed the tribunal in Isabo space of Abeokuta.

He acknowledged he became once at the tribunal to ogle the graduation of the hearing of the petition of Oladipupo Adebutu and his PDP against the victory of Governor Dapo Abiodun and APC within the March 18 election.

Sowunmi claimed Abiodun stole the PDP’s mandate within the final governorship election and the occasion have to retrieve it through election tribunal.

“The more severe thing that can happen to an election thief is to now in bare face to serve thugery and rubbish habits. I really maintain performed politics in Ogun Issue since 1999, by one incident in 2007, I don’t maintain any recollection of any time within the history of our Issue the put brigandage,misbehavior, thuggery, illegal activity, marauders and murderers maintain been elevated to the directive solutions of the Issue vitality like has took reveal below the govt. of Dapo Abiodun, the draw that negate the opt governor of Ogun Issue due to the he couldn’t maintain obtained an election that is calm very unprecedented being contested.

“This present day became once the starting, the hole of the Tribunal and clearly loads of americans will walk there. It is miles standard for leaders of political occasions like us to repeat face so we are in a position to shapely repeat solidarity no longer like we’re leaving all our followers to complete the full exertions while we take a seat within the comfort of our air conditioned room. And in my dependancy I don’t switch round with issues or miscreants.

“I alighted an inexpensive distance from the courtroom home due to the I do know that parking shall be a topic and I proceeded to slump, as I moved towards the ambiance, I had viewed the vary of gross characters that crude society they desires to be in penal advanced, milling round and utilizing all the blueprint in which during the reveal, some of them are pretty identified operators who mess round their parks and garages.

“I approached the courtroom gate and it became once locked and I realised that there became once no room within the courtroom anymore and I merely grew to became relief and as I invent my potential to proceed, a herd of murderers descended, making an strive to bring out cudgels, whips and guns they in most cases had been in most cases misbehaving. Fortunately, a safety vehicle became once no longer too far of and I entered into the protection vehicle to invent my potential to proceed as regular of the forms of nonsense that maintain became of Ogun below Dapo Abiodun, really apt one of them snatched my glasses and ran away with it.

“What I’ll shapely want to remark, first and main to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is that, now we maintain transferred vitality from one civilian administration to the loads of since 1999, no longer even below Muhammadu Buhari has brigandage been tolerated to the extent that we’re starting to glance it now. If they are now not attacking out americans in Kogi, they’re attacking us in Imo, within the occasion that they are now not attacking us in Imo, they’re attacking us in Abeokuta.

“It became once easy to mutter an assault until I felt it bodily, to quiz myself that how does this selection of madness took reveal here?

“Sadly, I saw the police standing by helpless as even supposing they don’t even keep in mind that they’ve the accountability to comprise the peace. I saved asking myself, how would possibly perhaps perhaps also they maintain got been staring at comprise gun, sticks and shouting “Dapo Abiodun despatched us!”

“I became once asking myself “when did Ogun Issue became a reveal the put Governor send thugs for the hole day of the Tribunal?”

“The primary proof of this selection of habits we saw from this Governor became once the repeat of shame that took reveal in Ijebu within the full Ogun East axis the put you saw operatives utilizing okada, shapely misbehaving.

“How does it became in model for you to mobilise miscreants to the Tribunal?

“Our role is that, the President of the courtroom of allure in his recordsdata would possibly perhaps perhaps also calm please relocate Ogun Issue Election Tribunal from Abeokuta due to the it’s far never any longer stable, so that we are in a position to walk and maintain that Tribunal within the aloof ambiance of Abuja and all americans can maintain the case adjudicated and we are in a position to cope with the of the courtroom conditions.

“The 2d thing is that, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would possibly perhaps perhaps also calm assign a leash on Dapo Abiodun earlier than he will get us to implode this Issue for him. For a technique lengthy are you going to be pushing us relief earlier than we react? It is miles democracy and now we maintain the shapely to stand for election, to search info from of that the election shall be free and shapely, to struggle during the technique of Tribunal, to walk to courtroom when our conditions are being called without being attacked.

“We maintain been putting in loads of labor to beg our americans now to now not resort to reprisal.

“Governor Dapo Abiodun, name your americans to insist! Right here’s completely unacceptable, here is no longer the Ogun Issue we all know, here is no longer the Ogun Issue now we maintain lived in, here is no longer the Ogun Issue of our future. Stir and procure out who’re who’s to blame, they maintain got finished it to your title and likewise it’s also possible to maintain an duty and accountability to name them to insist and invent obvious that we are in a position to live, we are in a position to sleep here and we would possibly perhaps perhaps also furthermore be stable here.

“It is miles a extraordinarily horrid day of shame, it’s far a day that mo physique in its shapely senses who’s a upright born of Ogun Issue shall be happy with this.

“Some of my followers are within the smartly being facility at present attending to their hurt. Fortunately, I became once in a position to gain far from the reveal, but it completely became once no longer without its hang scars.

“What would maintain took reveal if I had mobilised thugs there, what would maintain took reveal if I had suggested our supporters that they’ll also calm engage them in a battle, what would maintain took reveal if it had gotten out of hand? Can we want to invent a massacre in Ogun Issue shapely due to the Dapo Abiodun has misplaced an election and he he is struggling very stressful to clarify his stolen mandate?”