The immediate past Commissioner for Works and Transport in Osun State, Engr. Omowaiye Oluremi, has been attacked in Ilesha, his hometown, by political thugs.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that in a Facebook post shared by Oluremi’s Personal Assistant, Yakub Atanda, who was equally caught up in the melee, the former commissioner had visited a popular spare parts market in Isida to rejoice with members of the market and hand them his Christmas gifts of cow and bags of rice.
“Everything was going smoothly before some hoodlums surfaced from nowhere to hurl bottles, stones and other dangerous objects at our entourage. They shot sporadically at us,” Atanda said.
While Omowaiye was lucky to have escaped the scene unscathed, many members of his entourage and mobilisers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ilesha present at the event, were not that lucky as they were seriously injured by the dangerous weapons targeted at them.
The APC Youth Leader in Ilesha West Ward 3, Opeyemi One, Tosin Adanlawo, Ojo Agboola and Junior Olaojaoke were some of the APC faithful attacked and are currently receiving treatment for various degrees of wounds.
Speaking to journalists after the incident, Omowaiye said, “I have many reasons to believe those unhappy I am still around in the state to galvanise support for our party are the characters behind the assassination attempt on my person.
“They have been on my trail for months. They believe that when I and other leaders of the party are taken out or sent out of the state, our rank will fall apart and they would have an edge in the next year’s elections.
“We are resolute: we won’t leave the state for them. We will continue to mobilise for our party so we can truimph at the poll.
“Asiwaju Tinubu is the next president of Nigeria, by God’s grace and our principal shall get back the mandate freely given to him by our people. Our hope is on God and the good people of Osun State who we served meritoriously and would want our party back in government in the state.”
Meanwhile, law enforcement agents at the Ayeso police station in Ilesha, have reportedly arrested some suspects.
