Hoodlums attacked the APC campaign in Ilesa and Osun.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chapter in Osun State has denounced the recent wave of violent attacks on its members and property by political thugs working for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is currently in power in Ilesa.

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NewsReport that the APC leadership in the state urged the police and other security agencies in the state to discharge their statutory duties without fear or favor by putting an end to the needless spate of attacks on opposition members by PDP thugs.

It was gathered that the Ilesa Campaign Office of the immediate-past Commissioner for Works, Engr. Remi Omowaiye, was attacked by suspected PDP thugs.

The office, which doubles as the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Office in Ilesa, was riddled with bullets, and so many office items were destroyed in the melee with the shotgun bullets littering the office.

The attack on the campaign office of Omowaiye occurred two weeks after he narrowly escaped being killed by the PDP political thugs and a few hours after former Governor Oyetola visited the office on his way back from the APC presidential campaign rally in Akure, Ondo State.

As if that wasn’t enough, Honourable Olasunkanmi Obisesan, the Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, the Right Honourable Timothy Owoeye, was shot in broad daylight by the PDP thugs led by one Sunday Amure, a.k.a. “Irawo,” at Ifofin Ward, Ilesa-East Local Government Council Area of the state. Olasunkanmi, who was shot in the region of his ankle, was rushed to Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa, for intensive care and treatment.

In his response, the Osun State Acting Chairman of the APC, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, stated that there was no justifiable reason for the hostilities and attacks waged by the PDP on the APC members and their property. Lawal implored the police and other security agencies in the state to sit up and provide their statutory duties to the people of the state.

He ordered the police to investigate the heinous crime and bring the perpetrators to justice. The state acting chairman disclosed that he was surprised by the content of the press statement hurriedly rolled out by Mr. Akindele Adekunle, the state PDP caretaker committee chairman, after the report of the attack in the social media.

In his words, “I continue to wonder when I read the offensive diatribe of the Osun State PDP caretaker chairman shortly after the report of the attacks on our members if blood is actually flowing in his veins. “Must politics be taken to the level of wilful attacks on the opposition without any justification other than the sharing of different political ideals?

“The embedded kernel of Adekunle’s hogwash was simply the perpetual jitteriness of the PDP handlers each time they heard Oyetola’s name.

“Governor Ademola Adeleke and the Ondo State-born expired Osun State PDP caretaker chairman should know that no amount of victimization, oppression, or vindictiveness would prevent God Almighty from making his promise to Oyetola a reality,” Lawal stated.