Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State has debunked being behind the Sagamu protest of Monday during when three banks and the Local Government Secretariat were set ablaze
The Secretary of the Party, Dr Sunday Solarin made this declaration on Tuesday at a press briefing held in Abeokuta, the State Capital.
The Governor of the State, Prince Dapo Abiodun had in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, on Monday alleged that the Sagamu mayhem was politically motivated.
The statement had gone further to specifically say that some members of the PDP and their sympathisers were responsible for the sad incident.
The violent protest attributed to the Naira scarcity had begun in front of the palace of the Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, with some youths barricading roads and setting bonfire.
Abiodun, while condemning the crisis during when 30 suspects were arrested had laid the blame on the doorstep of the opposition party.
However, PDP while speaking through its Secretary, Dr Solarin, dismissed Abiodun’s allegations, saying that the party knew nothing about the crisis.
He said the Governor should rather take the blame of instructing the residents of the State to continue to spend the old notes of N1000 and N500 which the Federal Government had said was no longer legal tender.
Solarin said the residents of the State had taken this money to banks and that the rejection of these old notes by banks triggered the protest.
While sympathising with the people of the State over the unfortunate incident, Solarin urged the residents to go out in their large number on Saturday to vote for the PDP and put to an end the reign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that he said has brought so much pain to the people.
Solarin urged the people to remain calm and law abiding in the face of the badly implemented cashless policy of the Federal Government, saying that just very soon the light at the end of the tunnel will shine for all to begin a new day.