PDP gov aspirant, Ogun differ on campign office demolition

A governorship aspirant for the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Kayode Amusan, has alleged that the demolition of the perimeter fence of his campaign office in Abeokuta on Monday was politically motivated.

Amusan, a former House of Representatives member, said this in his reaction to the pulling down of the fence of his campaign office by officials of the state Bureau of Urban and Physical Planning in Abeokuta.

Mondays demolition was the second time such an exercise would be carried out on the structure. The first one was done in 2014.

The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, however argued that the structure was demolished because it contravened the law.

A team of BUPP officials had at about 10.20am stormed the PDP aspirants campaign office, situated along Oba Gbadebo Road, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, in a vehicle marked OG 06 836, and pulled down the structure.

They were said to have declared that the structure was not approved.

Amusan, however, told newsmen on the telephone that the BUPP did not have the right to carry out such demolition.

He added that he bought the building from the Federal Ministry of Housing.

The PDP aspirant claimed that the erection of the perimeter fence became necessary due to the dumping of fetish objects in the premises by some unknown persons.

Amusan insisted that the demolition of the structure was part of the strategy by the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state to intimidate him out of the 2015 governorship election.

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PDP gov aspirant, Ogun differ on campign office demolition