…Exposes Bello’s Plots to Import Thugs Into Ondo
The PDP National Campaign Council for Ondo Governorship election has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call Kogi state governor Yahaya Bello to order, over his open incitement of violence and alleged importation of thugs to attack the Ondo people with a view to undermine Saturday’s governorship election
The PDP campaign also cautioned Governor Yayaya Bello to immediately perish his alleged plot to move into Ondo with hordes of killer thugs, cultists and hoodlum or be ready to face the legitimate wrath of the Ondo people who are already at full alert to stiffly resist him with all energy available to them under our laws.
PDP statement on Thursday partly reads: “The alarm in the public space that Governor Bello has been contracted to import killer thugs to attack the Ondo people, was openly validated by his inciting “tatatatatata” gunshot chants at the APC campaign grand finale on Wednesday.
“Nigerians and the international community are already aware that “the tatatatatata” gunshot chant is Yahaya Bello’s signature tune for use of violence, trigger-happy thugs and compromised security operatives to unleash violence, kill and maim voters, including burning an innocent woman alive, in the 2019 Kogi state governorship election.
“It is therefore a clear affront to the Ondo people and Nigerians in general for Yayaya Bello to mount the podium before the klieg lights to raise the devilish “tatatatatata” chant, a song that symbolizes the height of electoral violence.
“Raising such devilish chant at the APC campaign grand finale raises apprehension of plots by the APC candidate, Governor Akeredolu and his cohort to unleash violence on the Ondo people, who he had already declared his enemies for life, over their irrevocable stance to replace him with our candidate, Eyitayo Jegede.
“Moreover, our campaign invites President Buhari to recall how Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s self-confessed thug, Isaac Kekemeke had confessed that the failed governor was behind the violent attacks on our candidate and boasted of the mayhem that would be unleashed when Yayaya Bello and “federal might” step into Ondo state.
“Our campaign however asserts that such enterprise is dead on arrival as nothing can cow the Ondo people to submission. Not when they have come this far.
“Furthermore, such open boasts by Kekemeke and Yahaya Bello’s plot to import violence in the Ondo election are direct affront to President Buhari’s new-found stance on credible, free and fair election as well as detracts from his desires in that direction; which of course, Mr. President should not condone.
“Our campaign therefore invites President Buhari to pull Yahaya Bello aside and caution him in the interest of peace as his actions will be vehemently resisted by the Ondo people who have already told Yayaya Bello that “Ondo is not Kogi.” and that those who attempt to “sow the wind” in this election, must be ready to “reap the whirlwind”.