The handover ceremony to the incoming ACN-led administration is slated for the MKO Abiola Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta.
In a statement signed by the party’s Publicity Secretary in Ogun State, Mr. Sola Lawal, the ACN accused Daniel of instructing his aides and associates to vacate the state on or before Wednesday, May 25 so as not to be caught up in the mayhem.
This move, the party also said, was meant to provide an alibi for top functionaries of the administration if they were fingered as culprits in the planned attack.
The ACN accused the Daniel’s administration of having the intention of causing pandemonium not minding its impact on lives and property of the citizenry.
He said, “He was unable to stop the emergence of Amosun and now planning to halt his installation. We hereby call on the security agencies to be at alert to ensure maximum security throughout Ogun State and also put in place steps that will guarantee safety of lives and property at the stadium during the hand-over ceremony.
“As a party, the ACN has been known to be peace-loving and we want to re-assure the good people of Ogun State that we will do all in our power to see that the state is well secured in the build-up to the swearing-in as well as on the day of the event.”
The ACN mentioned security as one of its cardinal programmes and vowed to ensure that the in-coming government in the state accords issues of security necessary attention.
“The neglect of security by the out-going administration is a deliberate action, which Governor Daniel exploited to his advantage and this has resulted in the palpable fear that has gripped the people of the state.
“The insecurity occasioned particularly by the unresolved murders in the last eight years has made prominent indigenes and frontline opposition leaders to flee the state and this has been detrimental to the socio-economic and political development of the state”, the party added.
Lawal in an interview with our correspondent disclosed that the Ogun State Police Command had been adequately briefed by the party on the development.
But both the Police Public Relations Officer for Ogun State Command, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, and the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Musa Daura, when contacted through telephone denied receiving such report.
Adejobi simply directed our correspondent to the state commissioner of police, but Daura in his response said, “I am not aware of such report and such report has not been forwarded to me. I am not a politician and you shouldn’t bother me about issues of politics.”
When reminded of the security implication of the allegation, Daura simply retorted, “I have told you, I am not aware and that I have not receive any report of such” before switching off his phone.
The Ogun State Governor, who reacted through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Adegbenro Adebanjo, urged security agencies in the state to probe the ACN over false alarm.
In a statement signed by Adegbenro, the state government described the allegations as heinous and condemned the party’s publicity secretary over the allegations.
“To say the least, we are shocked by the resort to naked propaganda and vile untruth by a party, which should ordinarily be concerned with fashioning ways to consolidate the gains of the last eight years in Ogun State. Rather than constructive engagement that would further deepen good governance, what we have seen is a descent to the abyss of propaganda and issuing of statements meant to heat up the polity and divide our people.
“However this latest concoction from the propaganda mill of the ACN in Ogun State gives cause for worry. For if this is the colour of the emerging administration, then Ogun State people should be prepared for lies at the highest level and propaganda as tool of governance. All the allegations contained in Mr. Lawal’s statement are completely false. We as a government cannot and will not destroy what we have built and what would continue to stand as legacies of our good governance in the last eight years.”
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