Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday clashed over the naira scarcity riot in which some banks and a council secretariat was attacked in the Sagamu area of the state.
Youths protesting the scarcity of naira notes on Monday set two commercial banks on fire in Sagamu, invaded the local council secretariat and carted away the legislative mace.
Governor Abiodun, in a statement by his media aide, Kunle Somorin, said the riot was politically motivated and accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of sponsoring it.
The PDP dismissed the allegation, saying, “We have no records of masterminding violence.”
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The state’s Secretary of PDP, Sunday Solarin, at a press briefing yesterday, said the governor had ordered residents to keep spending the old notes against presidential and CBN directives, thereby instigating people against the federal government.
He said, “I want to believe that it is the refusal of the banks to collect the old notes that triggered the riot we witnessed in Sagamu.”
Solarin further said the governor ought to have put in measures to forestall the riot having recorded similar attacks in Abeokuta three weeks ago, while urging the people to be calm in the face of the troubled times.
