Osun West By-Election, PDP Forwards Petition To IGP Over Attack of Members by Opposition.
Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
Barely few days to the By-election of Osun-West Senatorial District in Osun State, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGO over the attack of its members by suspected political hoodlums allegedly to be working for the ruling All Progressive Party, (APC) at Iddo-Osun community in Egbedore Local Government.
The party in a statement issued by its Chairman in the state, Prince Soji Adagunodo and made available to newsmen in Osogbo the state capital on Thursday, alleged that, “the APC thugs led by the notorious “state boy” known as ‘De Law’ used guns, cutlasses, axes and other dangerous weapons to scared the innocent residents of the community.”
Adagunodo said, the hoodlums laid siege on his members when the campaign train of APC senatorial candidate for the said July 8 by election, Senator Mudashir Hussein was campaigning in Egbedore while the several officials of government including the Executive Secretary of Egbedore South Area council Mr. Kola Ajao and other functionaries were allegedly fold their harms watching as the alleged thugs attacked unarmed citizens.
According to Adagunodo, “At the end of the one hour orgy of violence, the thugs numbering about hundred who were transported in several vehicles in the entourage of Senator Mudashir Hussein, left 15 people with various degrees of injury ranging from gunshot and matchet wounds.
“Three houses belonging to leaders of the PDP were damaged while the thugs seized and confiscated laptops, motorcycles, cash and other personal belongings of their victims.”
The chairman, noted that,”It is regrettable that while the violence raged, scores of police men who were at the scene of the crime watched helplessly, leaving the victims at the mercy of their tormentors.”
“The PDP in Osun state wishes to call on Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Inspector General of Police, the Director General of the SSS and the top echelon of the Security services to urgently order the immediate arrest and prosecution of the said thugs as well as their known sponsors.”
“We wish to warn that failure to act on this open display of intolerance and violent attack on innocent citizens will spell doom for the peace and stability of the state as our party members may be forced to defend themselves against such violent aggression.”
Richard Akintade, Osogbo
