4 days Ago By Guardian Nigeria
• APC vice chairmanship candidate escapes death • Adebutu’s media aide, Orekoya, denies allegation The Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) has announced that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won all the chairmanship and councillorship seats across all the 20 local councils of the state. The OGSIEC Chairman, Babatunde Osibodu, who made the announcement, yesterday, at the Commission’s headquarters in Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, in a live broadcast, said that 613,156 votes were cast in the chairmanship elections in all the councils. He said that 19 political parties participated in the election.
Meanwhile, Osibodu has issued Certificates of Return to the 20 newly-elected chairmen and the vice chairmen elect, urging them to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people of the state. However, some policemen were alleged to have opened fire on the vice chairmanship candidate of the APC in Ikenne Local Council, Muhammed Olaitan Efuwape, and one voter named Biola. Efuwape was said to have escaped death by the whiskers with injuries, but Biola was not lucky as the gunshots shattered his legs and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he is receiving medical attention The Guardian learnt that Ladi Adebutu had allegedly brought in over 40 policemen from MOPOL 49 in Lagos, with PDP thugs riding on okadas, brandishing guns and other weapons in Ikenne Local Council in their desperate attempt to scuttle the electoral process.
A source said that upon their arrival at the polling booth, the policemen opened fire, wounding both Efuwape and Biola. BUT reacting to the incident, Ladi Adebutu’s media aide, Afolabi Orekoya, denied the allegation, saying: “Adebutu’s son was attacked by a group of thugs in the neighbourhood very close to Adebutu’s house. While the thugs began to shoot, they shot one of the policemen attached to Adebutu very close to their house and not at any polling unit as claimed.
The injured policeman was quickly rescued and taken to the hospital.”.
