Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday said it will henceforth return ‘fire for fire’ for any attack on its members from the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. PDP state Chairman, Mr. Makanjuola Ogundipe, said the opposition would no longer tolerate “any act of brigandage from the ruling party” and would henceforth meet force with force.
Ogundipe, who spoke in Ado Ekiti yesterday while receiving the Letter of Intent from a PDP governorship aspirant in the 2014 election, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said: “We have been given the marching order from Abuja to reply ACN fire-for-fire.”
The PDP chairman, who cited the killings and attacks on the party’s members and the destruction of PDP governorship aspirants’ billboards as acts of victimisation, said: “They don’t have monopoly of violence, but we were only being conscious of the fact that we do not want to destabilise Ekiti. But henceforth, we will no longer tolerate this act of brigandage.”
Adeyeye, a former Afenifere spokesman, who was at the state PDP secretariat with his supporters, said his decision to vie for the PDP governorship ticket and the exalted governor’s office, was borne out of his genuine desire to transform the state with his “11 Priorities” agenda.
The governorship hopeful, who also formally opened his campaign office in Ado Ekiti, said he would reenact his culture of developmental innovations, if given the ticket and elected, saying: “You all know the innovations I brought to Ekiti primary education in just two years when I was the chairman of SUBEB in Ekiti. I am going to replicate this and take Ekiti to higher heights.”
He promised to use his platform, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement, PAAM, to unite the PDP to be able to rescue power from ACN in the forthcoming election. Adeyeye assured Ekiti people that he would tap the talents of Ekiti people who “are familiar with the plights of the people to develop our dear state if elected. Importation of brains to me is of no use.
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