The convoy of the wife of Osun State governor, Mrs Kafayat Oyetola, was at the weekend attacked by hoodlums, leaving her aides with varying degrees of injury.
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that the convoy was reportedly attacked on Friday night around Owode-Ede market.
An eyewitness said, “The convoy was passing through the market when a truck suddenly blocked the lane that the convoy was passing, then the thugs who were already around the area started to haul stones at the convoy.
“They attacked the convoy with dangerous weapons and the operatives started shooting into the air. Some of the security operatives sustain injuries because one of them was shouting that we have been hit,
“They shattered the glasses of the vehicles. The incident caused panic in the area. It is so unfortunate.”
When contacted, an aide of the governor’s wife, Oluwatumise Iluyomade who confirmed the incident did not disclose the number of operatives who were injured.
“All I can tell you is that no life was lost in the incident. I can’t tell you the numbers of security operatives that were injured but some of them that were attached to the convoy sustained varying degrees of injuries,” Iluyomade said.
Reacting, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which admitted that Mrs Oyetola’s convoy was pelted with stones and all others at the scene of the incident said the security operatives attached to Mrs Oyetola beat up the driver of a truck that caused obstruction for the convoy of the first lady.
The media director, Oladele Bamiji, said; “ A truck had developed a fault right at the middle of the road with the driver making efforts to get it to work. That was the point the first lady’s convoy arrived the scene and instead of helping to clear the traffic hold up , the security operatives around the first lady pounced on the truck driver, beating him to a state of stupor.’’
Meanwhile, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the attack, describing it as primitive, barbaric, shameful, dangerous and wicked.
The state APC chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun, in a statement issued by his media adviser, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, stated that it was alarming that some disgruntled politicians could descend so low to the extent of needlessly injecting violence into politics.
Famodun wondered why the hitherto peaceful ancient Edeland could be turned into a perpetual abode of violence where the sacredness of the lives of fellow human beings means nothing to some desperado political power mongers.
He explained that it is not proper for someone who is accused of theft to be romancing a baby goat as it’s on record that it was about two weeks ago that a pregnant woman and another indigene of Edeland were killed in a gruesome manner over a disagreement by some PDP members on the sharing formular of the leftover of the governorship campaign largesse provided by Senator Ademola Adeleke at Atapara/Oloba Ward 1 in Ede-North Local Government Council Area of the state.
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