Mimiko accuses ACN of plan to ‘import’ Tokyo for Ondo poll

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Ondo, Party Politics, State News Saturday, October 6th, 2012

The Mimiko Campaign Organisation (MCO), Saturday, alleged the plan by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to bring Tokyo, the factional leader of the Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) into Ondo state ahead of the gubernatorial election slated for October 20.

In a statement by the MCO’s Director of Publicity and Media Relations, Kolawole Olabisi, it warned Tokyo to stay away from the state, just as it appealed to the national leadership of the NURTW to prevail on the controversial drivers’ union leader not to allow himself to be used by selfish politicians.

The statement: “We are aware of the latest in the dastard plan of those who have vowed to publicly, and unashamedly too, that they will capture Ondo State and merge it with their empire to maim, and possibly kill our members and leaders with a view to striking terror in their hearts. They have been bringing all the known dreaded thugs and killers into our State; one of whom is Tokyo and his gang.

“In Ondo State members of the State Chapter of the NURTW and Road Employers Transport Association of Nigeria (RETAN) are happy with the positive development that the Olusegun Mimiko government had brought to the State. Today, they all have new taxis, buses including one of the best modern Motor Parks in Nigeria built for them by this Government.

”It would now be wrong to bring in a member of the same association in the garb of Tokyo to Ondo State to come and cause trouble. This is akin to setting members of the same associations against one another and the resultant effect is better not imagined.”

“While we are appealing to Tokyo to please stay out of Ondo State, we want to appeal to the national leadership of the NURTW and other transport workers associations in Nigeria to please appeal to Tokyo and his boys not to allow ACN to use them on a journey to perdition. We have no quarrel with the members of NURTW, not with Tokyo or anybody. Those who boast that they are on ground in Ondo State should go and sell their manifestoes to the electorate rather than engaging on media stunts, violence and outright lies. They should emulate us in LP who, despite the fact that we have performed well, still go about campaigning and soliciting for votes.”

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