Ekiti Killing: Sambo should be held responsible- APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State of Osun has stated that the killing by police of its supporters in Ekiti on Sunday is the actualisation of Vice President Mohammed Sambo’s promise to go to war in Ekiti and Osun states in order to snatch political power in the states.
On Sunday, while Sambo was still in Ekiti, the Federal police opened a war against APC supporters, killing one person and injuring several people.
This callous and barbaric action of the police mobile unit, under the command of a Bayelsa-born officer, one Gabriel Selekere, signifies the Federal Government opening of a second war front in the Western part of the country, in addition to the war against Boko Haram in the North.
According to the APC, the Ado Ekiti killing of APC supporters kick off the PDP’s plan to employ maximum force to steal political power in parts of the West by force.
Condemning the action as ‘savage and premeditated,’ the APC said that Vice President Sambo should be held accountable for the dangerous dimension that the political
process pre-2015 presidential election has taken.
‘Sambo was in Ekiti’, to make good his war promise to fight and take power in Ekiti,’ the APC said, adding that ‘it is a pity that this architect of a vice president is ignorant of history’.
‘In all the history of Nigeria’s politics, no federal leader has survived a ‘war’ against Yoruba people.
‘Tafawa Balewa did not live to tell the story of his ‘war’ against Obafemi Awolowo and the West. He fell in 1966.
‘Then, Sani Abacha, who wasted many Nigerian lives, himself died fighting against Moshood Abiola and the Yoruba people of the West.
‘In an attempt to establish a firm grip over the West in particular and Nigeria in general, Shehu Shagari faked a ‘landslide electoral victory’ in 1983. Then a ‘gunslide’ followed, as predicted by General Theophilus Danjuma. The President was lucky to survive it but he lost power.
‘The APC wants to make it clear that the PDP can only come to power in Ekiti and Osun states, swimming in the blood of Yoruba people. But there will be terrible consequences much greater than those of the war against Boko Haram. The country can unravel’, the APC said.
The APC therefore cautioned the President and his deputy that the police is not established to kill citizens but to protect them.
‘If this incident continues, it will spell doom for the Jonathan presidency and the whole country’, the party said.