Sagamu killings: APC, PDP trade blames

<p>The dust raised by last week’s cult killings in Sagamu is yet to settle as the two major political parties in Ogun State are currently engaged in a blame game over the development.</p>, <p>The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have continued to hold each other responsible for the killing of about 20 persons in Sagamu during the cult clashes.</p>, <p>Though the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Abiodun Alamutu, had on Sunday clarified that the cultists in Sagamu are neither students nor politicians, the political parties have been trading words, especially over the arrest of Hon. Damilare Bello by the Department of State Services, DSS.</p>, <p>The APC had earlier described the PDP as “a nest of cultists” but the PDP wasted no time in tagging the APC as “a hub of cultists and criminals”.</p>, <p>APC Publicity Secretary in Ogun, Tunde Oladunjoye, in a statement asked security agencies in the state to further investigate the PDP in order “to make more arrests and stem the tide of cultism in the state”.</p>, <p>According to Oladunjoye, it is no longer a rumour that “notable members of the rag-tag PDP in the state are involved in cultism as high ranking members in their various local government areas”.</p>, <p>He added, “We urge the security agencies to track and monitor the type of meetings the so-called honourable members are holding, hosting and presiding over in their constituencies.”</p>, <p>Oladunjoye accused the PDP of resorting to what he called “high level of absurdity in its vain attempt to distract the Administration of Prince Dapo Abiodun” after losing all its petitions at the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in the State.</p>, <p>Oladunjoye said the PDP rushed to town, “via preemptive paid adverts” to cry wolf over the recent cult clashes in Sagamu “and attempted to mischievously tag the APC”.</p>, <p>The APC spokesman said the PDP “shamelessly tried to link its failure at the polls with the cult clashes”.</p>, <p>“It therefore became iron