SUPPORTERS of the Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola and people of the Minister of Inside, Rauf Aregbesola, on Sunday traded accusations over the violence which occurred on the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress.
Suspected thugs on Saturday invaded the APC Secretariat and disrupted the sitting of the Enchantment Committee whereas it was reviewing petitions from the celebration’s final Ward Congress.
The state APC caretaker chairman, Gboyega Famoodun, in an announcement signed by his media marketing consultant, Kola Olabisi, accused Lowo Adebiyi, the chairman, “The Osun Progressives,’’ a faction of the celebration backed by Aregbesola, of main the hoodlums within the assault.
Famoodun mentioned, “the invasion of the celebration’s workplace which was led by a self-styled chairman of TOP and the previous chairman of the celebration, Elder Lowo Adebiyi; the present state Secretary of the celebration, Alhaji Rasaq Salinsile and a former Particular Adviser beneath the administration of ex-Governor Aregbesola, Gbenga Akano, with a few of his cupboard members, was crude, unacceptable, depraved, unwarranted, self-serving, undemocratic and brutish.
“Throughout the invasion of the state celebration secretariat, the political thugs who accompanied the TOP chieftains into the place grew wild and began to forcefully take away and beat any sighted member of the APC who was placing on Governor Oyetola’s inscribed fez cap.
“Throughout the melee, an APC member, Mr Nurudeen Ajetunmobi a.okay.a Abalawa from Ward Six in Osogbo Native Authorities Council Space, who was placing on an Oyetola-inscribed fez cap was assaulted and macheted on the pinnacle to the extent that his blood littered the bottom flooring of the secretariat.”
Nevertheless, at a information convention in Osogbo, the Caretaker Secretary of the celebration, Razaq Salinsile, mentioned, “Hoodlums with Oyetola 4+4 face caps have been drafted to the secretariat to dislodge the celebration members who had been calmly going earlier than the Enchantment Committee to current their instances.
“The resolute members resisted the invasion and walked the thugs out. The thugs yielded to an superior quantity and left in disgrace. The sitting was happening easily and everyone thought purpose had prevailed and the worst was over.
“Not fairly lengthy after, the thugs who had returned in a number of numbers, compelled their means into the premises of the celebration Secretariat and began huge assaults on the folks. The thugs with orange color face cap with inscriptions of ‘Oyetola 4+4’, have been so entrenched in impunity. A few of them had their faces lined with hoods.
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