The Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ladi Adebutu, has raised the alarm over threats on his life in the pursuit of his case at the election petition tribunal.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared that Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the March 18 gubernatorial election after scoring 276,298 votes while Adebutu polled 262,383 votes.
But, the PDP said the electoral umpire made the declaration in error as it failed to take into account the number of cancelled votes, which they said are more than 40,000.
Adebutu had a few days after the election, led his supporters in a peaceful protest to the INEC office in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, asking the commission to review the process.
Addressing a Conference of Political Parties in Abeokuta yesterday, Adebutu said he had been warned to mind himself wherever he goes.
The candidate said he had intelligence that he should, henceforth, avoid crowded areas, because he might be killed one day.
In his words, “I’ve been warned that I should mind myself wherever I go, that I should not go to crowded areas because, maybe one day I will be killed.
“The truth of the matter is that it is a PDP mandate. I don’t pray to die, but it is a PDP mandate and it is the people’s mandate. I am sure it will be easy to reclaim even if they kill me.”
He added that, “We are determined; if they want to kill us, it’s okay. They brought killers from Lagos to attack our candidate in Sagamu 2. Luckily, the man escaped through the balcony.”
He also condemned “the attacks on PDP members in Ogun,” especially in Remo axis of the State, charging security agencies to stop turning blind eyes to the attacks on his supporters.
