"No Support from any Forceman" Says ACN

Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State should be neutral, said by Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) .

The party called on soldiers and policemen “not to compromise  themselves with logistic support to aid their duties from the ruling Labour Party.”

A statement by the spokesman for the Independent Campaign Network, Mr. Bosun Oladimeji, on Wednesday, said there were allegations the LP was “trying to hoodwink the securities agencies”.

The ICN is one of the campaign organisations of the ACN’s candidate for the poll, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu.

Oladimeji said, “There are also allegations that LP chief, want to mount pressure on some top-ranking military officers to help disorganise the securitymen drafted to monitor the election.

“The ACN has it on good source that Mimiko has been in very serious discussion with the top officers of the Nigerian Army.”

He also alleged that Governor Olusegun Mimiko had compromised the leadership of the National Orientation Agency by promising it logistic support during Saturday’s election.

Efforts to reach the spokesman for the Mimiko Campaign Organisation, Kolawole Olabisi, and Publicity Secretary of the LP, Mr. Femi Akinjemiruwa, were not unsucessful as the phone numbers of both men were not switched off.