The senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun-East senatorial district, Mr. Francis Fadahunsi, has said that his supporters will no longer run from thugs allegedly being used by the leaders of the All Progressives Congress to unleash terror on members of the opposition party in the state.

Fadahunsi said this at a press conference in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Saturday, while reacting to the allegation that he was sponsoring attacks on members of the APC in Osun State.

Chairman, APC campaign committee in Ijesa-South federal Constituency, Mr. Idowu Korede, levelled the allegation against Fadahunsi.

Korede and other APC leaders had also claimed that Fadahunsi was using his residence at Ilase as an illegal detention camp, where members of the ruling party were tortured before being sent to the police.

But Fadahunsi, who retired as an Assistant Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, said that members of the PDP, especially in Ijesa area, would no longer run away from alleged APC thugs.

Fadahunsi also accused some leaders of the APC of sponsoring thugs to destroy his campaign billboards and to attack members of the PDP in the area.

He said that leaders of the ruling party allegedly unleashed their thugs to beat and injure some PDP members in Ijesa land after the judgment of the Election Petitions Tribunal which upheld the victory of Governor Rauf Aregbesola on February 6.

He said, “Do you expect members of the PDP to keep quiet and fold their arms while APC thugs daily attack them? It won’t happen! There is a limit to what everybody can endure. We want peace and we are praying for peace but if they bring war, they will regret it.

“My background, my exposure and education won’t allow me to descend to that level. I don’t raise thugs because I don’t want anybody to use my children as thugs. I can’t use terror on the people whose votes I am soliciting.”

Fadahunsi said that the leaders of the ruling party in the state had continued to blackmail the police and the Department of State Service because the security agencies had refused to be bought over.

He said that he would win the election because he believed that the people of the senatorial district love him so much and were ready to support his ambition.