APC, PDP trade words over Jonathan’s planned visit to Ekiti

Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State Chief Jide Awe yesterday raised an alarm over the alleged plan by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to foment trouble during

President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the state on Saturday.
President Jonathan will be visiting the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti on Saturday for the maiden convocation of the institution.
Awe, who had raised a similar alarm two weeks ago, made the allegation again at a press conference in Ado Ekiti.
He alleged that the PDP is planning series of attacks on the day of the visit in a manner that would suggest that the APC is out to embarrass the president.
Awe had alleged a forth night ago that the leaders of the PDP were planning to kidnap their state chairman, Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe in order to accuse some APC chieftains of the  crime.
Awe further alleged that members of the opposition were planning to disrupt the third year anniversary rally of Governor Kayode Fayemi.
Awe added: “We heard from a grapevine source that the PDP is planning to disrupt our programme in other to embarrass the governor. This is a calculated attempt to frame up some of our members as trouble makers. We want to state that if the PDP actors are planning to use President Goodluck Jonathan to show their strength, then it should be done with modesty and decency, not by setting the state on fire in order to create the impression that APC is out to embarrass the president”.
But the PDP Publicity Secretary Pastor Kola Oluwawole denied the allegation, des-cribing it as a figment of the imagination of APC leaders, who he accused of struggling to survive having seen that their popularity has nose-dived.
Oluwawole, who dispelled insinuation that they were planning to set the state on fire, added that the only preoccupation of the PDP now is how to put its house in order to present a credible candidate that would dislodge Governor Kayode Fayemi in 2014.
The PDP spokesman, who described the APC allegations as false, urged security agencies to beam their searchlights on members of APC in the state