Amosun wants to Kill us Ogun senators and Reps Members write Dg sss

THE crisis rocking the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took a different turn at the weekend as the National Assembly caucus of the party sent a save our soul (SOS) message to the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), calling for his intervention to protect them from serious danger in the state.

The call is contained in a petition dated 23 January 23, entitled; “Petition: Re: Threat to Lives, Breach of Peace /Security and Police Complicity,” which indicated that the series of mayhem unleashed by suspected thugs on the lawmakers and their supporters called for urgent intervention.

The lawmakers also accused the police and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) of complicity in the tense moment in Ogun State.
But the state chapter of the NURTW has distanced itself from the political violence rocking the state.

The union’s secretary, Comrade Sunday Yeye, who made this stand known while addressing a press conference at the union’s secretariat in Abeokuta recently, insisted that the union would never be part of partisan politics.

Those who signed the lawmakers’ petition include Senators Akin Odunsi, Gbenga Obadara and Gbenga Kaka; as well as Honourables Abudu Balogun, Olumide Osoba, Kehinde Odeneye, Segun Williams, Adekunle Adeyemi, Bukola Buraimoh and Babatunde Ogunmola.

According to members of the Ogun state APC caucus in the National Assembly, an attempt to inaugurate the State Harmonisation Committee, in line with the directive of the national leadership of the APC on 9 January, was met by resistance from some thugs who disrupted the inauguration ceremony.

The petition indicated that the hoodlums unleashed terror on those present at the event and smashed cameras belonging to media houses, while snatching phones from others.

The petitioners claimed that the group that disrupted the programme was led by a chieftain of the NURTW whom they described as “the ring leader and mastermind of most acts of terrorism in Ogun State.”

But the state NURTW secretary, Yeye, with the state chairman, Alhaji Akeem Adeosun, at the conference, asked if anyone appeared at such political venues in the name of the union or carry any banner that reflected the union’s presence.

He, however, noted that the union’s constitution gave room for members to belong to any political party of their choice.