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Violent people won’t thrive in Oyo, says Ajimobi

NOVEMBER 25, 2014 

   

Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi.

The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has warned that as the Chief Security Officer of the state, he will not stand by and allow anyone, no matter their status, to jeopardize the hard-won peace in the state.

The warning was contained in a release issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Festus Adedayo.

The governor said he was worried about the trend of orchestrated violence in the state in the last few days. He said it pointed to desperation by some politicians to destroy the flagship of the government’s performance, which is peace and security.

The governor said that the Friday’s violence, which led to the death of a policeman and some other people injured in Oke-Ado area of Ibadan while his meet-the-people-tour train was still in Ido Local Government, was a calculated attempt to “pollute the river of peace” in the state and give the impression that the Ajimobi government was not different from its predecessors whose governments were known for encouraging thuggery, bloodletting and gangsterism.

He said that the violence which occurred at the Popoyemoja area of Ibadan on Sunday, where some thugs unleashed mayhem on the residents of the area, could not be divorced from the bitter politics of the past and an attempt to destroy the image of the government.

“Our people are not fooled. We have received high-profiled information that this sporadic violence was not an accident. Aware that peace is our government’s flagship in a state which under previous governments was like Syria and Afghanistan, opposition warlords have apparently grouped to return our state to its disgraceful past, all in the name of scoring cheap in-road into the hearts of the people during the 2015 elections,” the governor said.

“In the last three and half years, we have demonstrated to our people that ours is a government that cannot stand thugs and hooligans. Those who know us can testify that we have zero tolerance for violence and we are not about to renege on this. We believe that only peace can bring development. This has worked because in the last few years, investments have started pouring into Oyo State,” he added.

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