Buhari recently directed security agencies to deal decisively with ballot box snatchers in the forthcoming general elections.Issa said the directive had become necessary following last Tuesday’s clash between supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ojoku, Oyun Local Government Area of the state. He justified the presidential directive on potential trouble makers during the polls.The LP governorship candidate expressed shock over the reported killings that characterised the Ojoku clash. He said that the Labour Party was supporting Buhari because his policies and programmes were in tune with the party’s manifestos.He called on the state government to pay them compensation for exposing them to health hazard. Aremu however sympathised with the residents of the ongoing Geri Alimi split Diamond underpass in Kwara. He said that the seemingly abandoned underpass bridge project was a metaphor for PDP’s 16 years governance in Kwara.

Source: The Guardian February 22, 2019 12:22 UTC