Ado-Ekiti: Our REPORTER
Published, Monday, June 13, 2022
POLITICAL THUGS believed to be members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) wearing the All Progressive Congress (APC) vests and loaded in five buses belonging to the All Progressives Congresd, APC, gunned down six members of Social Democratic Party, SDP at the campaign rally venues of the Social Democratic Party(SDP) candidate, Engr. Segun Oni in Itaji Ekiti and Oye Ekiti all in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State on Saturday,
The alleged APC thugs stormed the venues of the ralles in commandos style and began to shoot sporadically to scare away the party faithfuls.
In a press statement issued by Mr Jackson Adebayo, the Director of Media and Publicity of Segun Oni Campaign Organisation (SOCO) and made available to the journalists in Ado Ekiti on Saturday.
According to the statement, the thugs, who were allegedly sent by Mr Rotimi Olanbiwoninu, a-k-a Mentilo, the Ekiti State Chairman of RTEAN, began to shoot at the SDP governorship candidate, while Asiwaju Segun Oni was addressing SDP members and supporters at Itaji town.
According to Adebayo, three SDP members were shot and terribly wounded in Itaji but luck ran out for one of the RTEAN thugs who missed the one of the buses and was held by party supporters who handed him over to the police.
The SOCO Spokesman said that it took the mobile policemen and some soldiers on patrol about 30 minutes to bring the situation under control.
The unlucky thug confessed that they were sent by Mentilo and that he( Mentilo) was working for the Biodun Oyebamiji Campaign Organisation.
At Oye, said Adebayo, the RTEAN thugs allegedly shot three members of the SDP who were waiting for the arrival of Oni who was due to address party supporters in the town, adding that the thugs entered their buses and fled on seeing the mobile policemen that were following the campaign convoy of the SDP and the soldiers that were on patrol.
Notwithstanding the chaos created by the violent attacks at Itaji and Oye, the people of the areas trooped out enmass to welcome Oni, in a pith of anger and determination promising to vote for the SDP candidate, Segun Oni.
They added that the APC thugs cannot intimidate or prevent them from coming out to vote on the election day, saying the SDP candidate go to sleep as nothing could change their support and love for him.
The injured SDP members have been taken to the hospital while the matter was reported to the Commissioner of Police.
When the Police Public Relations Officer, was contacted his phone rang out without response,he's yet to respond to the text message sent to him.
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