The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned its members to refrain from attacking Governor Biodun Oyebanji.
The warning came after an allegation claiming that some APC members were among individuals recruited to launch media attacks against the governor.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Yinka Oyebode, warned that appropriate action would be taken against anyone found culpable.
He disclosed that over 150 people on social media have been paid to carry out the attack starting next week.
He said, “Over 150 persons across various social media platforms, including notable influencers at the national level, had been paid to carry out the attack beginning from next week.”
Oyebode said the government would treat the plot with the seriousness it deserved.
He stated, “The sponsors of this grand plot, sadly, are members of the ruling APC, who are bent on heating up the polity in a bid to make a cheap political point. Part of their grand design, as uncovered, is to discredit the governor, as well as some key figures within the party and the government, through spurious and malicious allegations, including forged documents and AI-generated graphics.
“Those behind this planned social media onslaught are the same people who clandestinely launched a social media attack against President Bola Tinubu last week, using one of the federal roads in the state, the Itawure-Aramoko-Igede road, as an alibi.
“These characters went back to the drawing board and came up with another action plan, which includes inducing 150 social media attackers with huge sums of money (in foreign currency) to carry out the nefarious act of character assassination and cheap blackmail through online trending of forged documents.
“The government has chosen to alert the public on this grand plot in order to avert likely breach of the peace, recourse to self-help and unnecessary tension in the polity, which are the main intentions of the masterminds of this ignoble plot.”
