The All Progressives Congress, APC has alleged that thugs purportedly loyal to the minister of state for defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro were responsible for the murder of Alhaji Azeez Asake, a chieftain of the party on the Lagos Island.
The APC through its Lagos Spokesperson, Joe Igbokwe claimed that the chieftains were killed when the suspected political thugs were returning from the South West rally of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP held at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Saturday.
“After the PDP South-west rally in Lagos, Alhaji Azeez Asake of APC was allegedly shot and killed by the notorious Abija group led by one Olokodana and Ade Lawyer said to be loyal to Senator Musliu Obanikoro; a junior Minister in the Ministry of Defence,” Igbokwe in a statement.
The party warned that if Senator Obanikoro and his boys called the Abija group were not called to order, they might create further crisis that would lead to bloodshed in Lagos.
APC members were holding their weekly meetings. Police in Ajah are still investigating the crime but no arrest has been made. In yesterday’s shootings, we are yet to hear that arrest has been made to bring the murderers to justice,” Igbokwe added.
According to him, “in 2007, when Senator Obanikoro was a PDP candidate for Lagos Governorship race, similar brigandage and shootings were recorded in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos which left scores wounded when the Senator ordered his boys to shoot innocent Action Congress (AC) members where they were holding a meeting.
“We have it on record that Senator Musliu Obanikoro has been a violent politician who uses every means possible to achieve the desires of his heart irrespective of the feelings of others. Obanikoro is violent, ruthless and dangerous and he sees politics as a do or die affair, and this must be an embarrassment to the Ministry of Defence where he is a junior Minister,” he said in the statement.
Igbokwe said Lagos APC warns that it might resort to self-help if its teeming supporters could not be protected from excesses of Lagos PDP by the nation’s law enforcement agencies, as nobody had a monopoly of violence.
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