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by a Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which
went through Oduduwa and Layinka streets and moved down to Cemetery Road
in Amukoko.
some politicians, who accompanied the unnamed Senatorial candidate,
began to share gifts.
who felt they were being sidelined, attacked the supporters.
Two other factions of the thugs also reportedly clashed, shooting at
one another and vandalising property. Two young men of the same parents,
identified simply as Abeeb and Idris, were among the five persons
killed in the fracas.
died instantly, while Idris, his younger brother, was initially rushed
to a private hospital in the area before he died.The two young men lived
with their parents on Alayabiagba Street, Boundary, Ajegunle.
A shop owner, Ojedokun, who witnessed the incident said the thugs
looted her goods and shot continually, during which stray bullets
injured several passersby.
She said:
“Trouble started when the aspirant began to
share out gifts to supporters. He gave out mobile phones, pressing
irons, among other things. As people scrambled for those gifts, trouble
began.
The thugs brought out guns and began to
shoot to scare away people. They began to smash bottles on the ground
and attack one another. Even the policemen, who accompanied the rally,
fled for their lives. Stray bullets hit people. We later heard that
about six people were shot dead.”
The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the
incident saying, “The police in Ajegunle recovered two corpses, and the
Amukoko division recovered another one. The cause of the violence was
that some hoodlums again went on a rampage. Intense efforts are ongoing
to arrest the perpetrators of the violence.”