APC blames razed market on Fayose’s curfew

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has challenged Governor Ayodele Fayose to explain‎ how hoodlums could break the security checkpoints in Ado-Ekiti to burn down Oja Oba, the largest market in the town, the night he imposed a curfew.



The party wondered why the arson took place despite the presence of hundreds of security agents deployed in the state capital to maintain vigil to ward off criminal activities.

The state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, in a statement on Monday said the puzzle must be resolved against insinuations that the arson had the imprints of government-sponsored sabotage.

“We want to know how the heart of town where the market is located and which was bombarded by hundreds of armed security agents‎ to maintain law and order, could be attacked at midnight razing that magnificent market without the security agents raising a finger.
“More shocking is the scale of damage done to the market, which suggests that the operation was not carried out in a hurry and could not have been carried out by a single person,” he said.

Olatubosun said it was suspicious that streetlights along major roads leading to the market went off as early as 8pm that night.

“We have noticed that whenever streetlights go off early like that, an untoward event would follow just as it happened when the APC secretariat at Ajilosun was attacked by suspected hoodlums from the government house.

“The inability of the Fayose administration to service the streetlights on major roads in the capital is a deliberate ploy to create a conducive atmosphere for government sponsored hoodlums to operate.”
The party sympathised with hapless market men and women who lost goods worth millions of Naira in the inferno as well as other ethnic groups who lost valuables in the market.

Fayose in his reaction through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said he was “not prepared to respond to every senseless outburst of Ekiti APC.

“Doing so is to descend to their level of mediocrity and joblessness. We are much concerned with providing good governance to Ekiti people. This is our focus.

“How can we be responding to utterances of idle minds who don’t have any job to do except to want to cause distraction with lies. Let them go and assist their brother governors in other states grappling with problem of workers strike over months of unpaid salaries.”