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The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has challenged Governor Ayodele Fayose to explain to Nigerians why he imported men in Army uniform, suspected to be thugs, into his country home in Afao Ekiti onTuesday night.

The opposition party, which said the action of the governor might not be unconnected with his insistence that soldiers must be deployed to rig the forthcoming general elections, also challenged him to explain the roles of the young men in Ekiti.

A statement by the stateAPC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, on Wednesday, said Nigerians must know why these young men were stealthily imported to Afao-Ekiti at night.

Olatubosun recalled that the party had earlier raised the alarm over the sowing of fake military uniforms for thugs to impersonate security personnel to enable them to rig elections.

He said the governors alleged rigging plan had manifested in some Oodua Peoples Congress members in military uniforms, operating as task force officials that had been terrorising the opponents in recent times.

Olatubosun said, Last nights importation of young men in six 18-seater buses to Afao-Ekiti home of the governor is a clear confirmation of our fear that Fayose means business as he has been boasting around that the presidential election will be a do-or-die affair.

We were monitoring these young men from Ibadan yesterday evening. They were brought in a luxury bus parked under the bridge at Iwo Road, Ibadan, where the men in charge were looking for smaller buses to convey these young men to Ekiti. The conditions for their hiring included that they must know Ekiti State terrain and Afao-Ekiti in particular.

The six buses left Ibadan late in the evening and arrived Afao-Ekiti at exactly9.15pmand the men disembarked in front of the governors house. What gave them away was the discovery of Army uniforms in their bags when they opened their bags to buy hot drinks and akara from road hawkers inside the bumps at Ikire.

But Fayose said the party was onlyraising an unnecessary alarm because there were no soldiers being kept at Afao as the party alleged.

The governor, in a reaction by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said, Election has not come; we have about 34 days to the election. What will that number of soldiers be doing in Ekiti when we are not in election period?

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