The Ekiti State Police Command on Wednesday arrested over five hundred political thugs suspected to be members of Oyo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Motor Park Management System.
The News Carrier NG reports that the political thugs believed to be working for Governor Seyi Makinde were nabbed by men of Nigerian Army around 3:00am Wednesday 26th January at Ita Awure/Efon Junction, ahead of the much-anticipated primary elections of Ekiti PDP.
Ekiti State gubernatorial primary of PDP holds today, Wednesday, January 26, 2022, at Great Eagle Hall, Km 7 Ikere Road, Ajebamidele Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
The exercise is to be conducted by Governor Udom Emmanuel-led 5-man Committee.
The hoodlums were caught with dangerous
weapons such as dane guns, cutlasses, cans of fuel, lighters, axes, charms and others.
The News Carrier NG reliably gathered that there have been undue pressures on Security agencies to free the thugs.
The News Carrier NG recalled how some fully armed members of Oyo State Motor Park Manager System (PMS) were arrested in Osogbo during the April 2021 South-West zonal congress of the PDP.
Governor Makinde and the former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose are at loggerheads over who between them should produce the governorship candidate of the party in Ekiti State.
