2 die as APC, PDP supporters clash in Osun
With barely 15 days to the August 9, governorship election in Osun
State, supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship
candidate, Governor Rauf Aregbesola and those of the People Democratic
Party (PDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore yesterday in Ilesa engaged
themselves in a bloody clash, leaving two persons dead.
It was gathered that supporters of the two political gladiators clashed at Irojo area of Ilesa using various dangerous weapons.
Although the identity of the deceased could not be ascertained as at
press time, it was gathered that they were beaten with charms before
they finally gave up the ghost.
The Public Relations Officer of
the state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
(NSCDC), Mr. Ayo Olowo who confirmed this said normalcy had since
returned to Ilesa.
Reacting to the ugly incident the APC in a
statement by its spokesperson, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi alleged that the PDP
thugs burnt billboards of the APC governorship candidate and shot
sporadically, causing residents to flee .
“The APC condemn in
the strongest term the recourse to violence by desperate politicians in
the PDP who have been boasting publicly to use every means including
federal might to remove the APC from power in the state,” he stated.
Also, the PDP in a statement by Omisore’s Director of Media and
Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi blamed the APC for the violence recorded
in Ilesa and other parts of the state, alleging that the APC was
responsible for the clash.
Odeyemi noted that the APC
governorship candidate had instigated his supporters to resolve to
violence, saying that “Aregbesola had at different occasions called on
his loyalists to go to campaigns and even polling centres fully armed.”
He condemned the resolve of the APC to violence, saying that “the era
of do or die should have gone for good in Nigerian politics.
The Joint Task Force was later sent to the state to bring peace and
order to the place although the APC frowned at the development saying
the Presidency must have sent them to cow APC supporters.
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7/26/2014
2 die as APC, PDP supporters clash in Osun
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