In what was described as desperate move to save his inherited age-long grip of Kwara State politics from crashing, President of the Senate Bukola Saraki has been accused of resorting to using thugs against the crusade mounted by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
This was as the state APC governorship candidate AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq escaped death by the whiskers on Sunday, when hoodlums believed to be PDP thugs fired into a rally he was attending at Ode Alfa Nla area of the capital Ilorin.
AbdulRazaq, who had on Saturday begun a daring door-to-door mobilisation of voters in Ilorin, was quickly whisked away from the rally as thousands of party supporters also scampered for safety.
Two persons, seriously injured by the gunshots fired by the thugs at the rally, have since been taken to the hospital.
The violence occurred almost simultaneously with similar attacks on APC supporters in Ile Aiyelabegan, a household that is a short distance from the Agbaji homestead of the Senate President Bukola Saraki.
“We condemn this brazen resort to violence. This is getting out of hand. Nigerians are urged to prevail on the Senate president to prevail on his party thugs and stalwart to give peace a chance in Kwara. There is life after politics,” Rafiu Ajakaye, media aide to the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq campaign organisation, said in a statement.
“We call on all the security agencies to buckle up and tame the monsters who are now terrorising everybody in not just Ilorin but everywhere in Kwara where people express their desire for freedom and life more abundant.”
