By OLA AJAYI

IBADAN — FOLLOWING last week’s murder of the night guard of a former Secretary to Oyo State Government, Mr. Ayodele Adigun, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state has alleged that the murder may have been stage-managed by opponents, who wanted to give a false impression that politics of violence has returned to the state.

Suspecting that the murder may have been carried out to attract attention and win the sympathy of residents in the state ahead of 2015 elections, the party called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed, to investigate and unearth the mystery surrounding the murder.

Speaking through its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Dauda Kolawole, the party said: “Oyo State people are too civilised to be hoodwinked by this queer, seemingly stage-managed murder which was obviously targeted at showing that we have returned to the old days under PDP and its turn-coat administrators.

“Our people have discovered that the Ajimobi government’s peaceful reign is borne out of tolerance for the other person and non-aligned administration of justice. Is it not curious that the first statement made by a major dramatis personae of the murder was that Oyo had returned to the Hobbesian state of nature where life was nasty, brutish and short?”