Ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Ondo State, the Idanre Local Government chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has raised an alarm on importation of fake soldiers to different rural communities of the town.
A chieftain of the APC in Idanre, Hon. Kolawole Olomola said the soldiers were imported into Idanre by a known PDP chieftain. He added that the fake soldiers were seen riding on scores of motorcycles around 1:00am in the night. He further said that the fake soldiers are now hibernating at the rural communities of Idanre.
Kolawole also said that he had received reports from rural community leaders of Idanre that fake soldiers had been sighted and hibernating in their communities. He also talked of the panic that the fake soldiers are causing in the rural communities of Idanre.
The APC chieftain further said that it had been ascertained through local intelligence that the fake soldiers were allegedly imported to Idanre to intimidate their party’ssupporters, and to also disrupt peaceful conduct of the governorship election in the rural communities of Idanre.
Kolawole however expressed deep worry on the dastard plans of the well known PDP chieftain in Idanre. He reiterated that plan of the PDP chieftain was to intimidate, maim, kill and prevent the people of Idanre from coming out peacefully to vote for the governorship candidate of their choice.
Hon. Kolawole has therefore called on all the relevant security agencies to immediately mobilize their personnel to the rural communities of Idanre, to dislodge the fake soldiers. He lamented that the peace loving people of Idanre were only looking forward to a peaceful and credible election, and not political violence
“I am calling on the relevant security agencies to immediately come to the rescue of the peace loving people of Idanre. The needful must be done to diislodged, arrested and prosecuted these fake soldiers. We are peace loving people inIdanre, and we are only craving for a peace election, and not war from fake soldiers”, Kolawole lamented.