The Oodua Peoples Congress OPC, on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of the Boko Haram sect being involved in Monday’s bomb blast at the INEC office in Ekiti.

Founder of the OPC, Dr Federick Faseun, disclosed this in Lagos. According to him, “Nigeria should not put every episode of violence on the laps of the Boko Haram. I won’t subscribe to Boko Haram being responsible for the Ekiti bombing’’.

He said that security operatives must find and fish out those responsible for the dastardly act, otherwise, the nation would continue to look at Boko Haram, while other people take advantage to commit crimes.

INEC office in Ikole Ekiti was on Monday bombed by unidentified persons. The bombing came just two days after the INEC conducted a re-run election to fill the vacant seat of the Ekiti Central Federal Constituency II, which was won by the Action Congress of Nigeria , ACN, candidate, Oyetunde Ojo.

The INEC Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Taiwo Gbadegesin, whose office was razed in the explosion, said that no life was lost in the incident.

However, Police spokesman of Ekiti State, Mohammed Jimoh, said that explosive experts had been deployed to investigate the incident and its cause.

It will be recalled that the OPC last Thursday carried out a massive protest in Lagos against the activities of the Boko Haram sect and the poor security situation in Nigeria.

Faseun, however, said that the OPC was ready to take up the security of the South-West, if security operatives continued to exhibit incompetence in tackling crime. (NAN)