ACN alleges plot to kill Amosun

The Action Congress of Nigeria in Ogun State has raised the alarm over alleged plot to assassinate its governorship candidate in the April 26 poll, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.

According to ACN, security agents had uncovered plans by Amosun’s opponents to plant bombs in his private residences at both Abeokuta and Lagos.

In a press statement by the Ogun ACN Publicity Secretary, Mr. Sola Lawal, the party, while commending the security agents for taking prompt steps to nip the plan in the bud, the party called for stiffer security arrangement for Amosun as the governorship poll approached.

The party said it would not treat the alleged plot with levity as there were cases of unresolved murders in the state, including that of the ACN candidate in the 2007 governorship election, Otunba Dipo Dina.

It recalled the attacks on Amosun in the cause of his campaigns at Ilaro and Igbesa, as well as the killing of one of his supporters, Tajudeen Bello, in Abeokuta during the National Assembly poll.

The ACN said it would not sit back and watch the life of its candidate threatened.

“While we have all along been conducting our activities and campaigns peacefully and in accordance with the rule of the game, our opponents have since been engaging in unhealthy plots and they have been getting away with it”, the party said.

It noted that its opponents, particularly the People’s Democratic Party and the People’s Party of Nigeria, would not relent in their desperate ambitions to win the election. The ACN said the internal wrangling within the PDP and the animosity between the PDP on one hand and the PPN on the other hand already claimed the life of the Onijoun of Ijoun in Yewa North Local Government area who was murdered in his palace last Friday.