The APC chairman in Osun, Gboyega Famodun, has condemned the alleged political thugs’ attack on journalists on Monday.
Mr Famodun expressed his condolences to the journalists and members of the public who were assaulted when the party’s governorship campaign train stopped in Gbongan, Aiyedaade local government, on Tuesday.
“Wicked, uncivilised, crude, callous, shocking, inhuman, and against the tenets of democracy,” the chairman said of the attack.
“I’m baffled as to why the attack happened,” he said. Mr Famodun went on to say that the attack was perpetrated by opponents fearful of losing the governorship election.
Mr Famodun went on to say that physical and verbal attacks on Governor Gboyega Oyetola would not stop him from winning his re-election bid on July 16.
While leaving the governorship campaign in Gbongan, the Nigeria Union of Journalists’ bus, which contained journalists, was attacked by suspected political thugs.
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The attackers assaulted APC members’ vehicles with cutlasses, cudgels, axes, stones, and other weapons, injuring many.
After returning to the state capital, the injured journalists were taken to a private hospital in Osogbo’s Ogo-Oluwa Area for treatment.
