The Senator Sharafadeen Alli’s (BSA) Campaign Organization has raised an alarm on a plot by some elements of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) working in connivance with some leaders of the Park Management System (PMS) to destroy and deface Alli’s billboards and posters across Ibadan metropolis.
The campaign organization said credible intelligence revealed that the sinister plot was hatched at a meeting held earlier on Friday at Gbagi area of Ibadan under the leadership of one Hollified (aka King of Boys), and one Akin Owo.
It added that participants at the meeting agreed to mobilize PMS miscreants to embark on massive destruction of BSA campaign assets.
The statement, signed by the Director of Media and Publicity Bisi Oladele, partly read: “Our intelligence revealed that Egbeda, Ibadan North East, Lagelu and Akinyele local government areas of Ibadan, where the APC gubernatorial candidate enjoys high domination of billboards and posters due to massive acceptance and love by the people, have been marked as primary targets.
“As at the time of issuing this statement, there is ongoing mobilization of PMS thugs to execute this sinister plan in the wee hours of tomorrow Saturday.
“We wish to state categorically that this resort to thuggery, vandalism and destruction of opponents’ campaign materials is a sign of panic, failure and imminent rejection by the good people of Oyo State. It shows that APM candidates and their sponsors have nothing to offer, a clear reason they are resorting to violence to intimidate the opposition.
“The BSA Campaign Organization hereby advises Governor Seyi Makinde to call his party members and supporters to order. He must resist the temptation to unleash violence on the good people of Oyo State who have endured his excesses in the last seven years. For emphasis, no amount of billboard destruction can erase the people’s love and acceptance of Senator Sharafadeen Alli or rewrite the woeful record of the outgoing administration in local government administration, agriculture and health, to mention a few.
“As the chief security officer of the state, we are reminding Governor Makinde that he is directly responsible for peace in Oyo State, and should, therefore, warn his supporters to desist from acts that can promote breakdown of law and order.
“We call on the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Director of Department of State Services (DSS) in Oyo State and other security agencies to act fast, investigate this plot and ensure protection of lives and property, including campaign materials which are legally deployed.
“We advise all APC members and supporters across the state to remain calm, law-abiding and resist provocation by miscreants who are in a desperate mood.
“Oyo State voters deserve issue-based campaigns, and the APC shall resist moves to drag it into deliberate distraction from germane issues before Oyo State voters this time. No group of thugs acting under any political colouration should be allowed to disrupt that peace.
The people of Oyo State have already decided to vote for competence and character in their determination to move Oyo State AHEAD through the ballot in 2027.
