Oyetola’s wife convoy attack: DSS operative injured as police arrest 5 suspects

Some hoodlums attacked the First Lady’s convoy Friday evening at the Owode-Ede market area.

It was gathered that an operative of the Directorate of State Service (DSS) was injured during the attack.

An eyewitness who pleaded anonymity said: “The convoy was passing through the market when a truck suddenly blocked the lane that the convoy was passing, then the thugs who were already around the area started to haul stones at the convoy. They attacked the convoy with dangerous weapons and the operatives started shooting into the air.

“Some of the security operatives sustained injuries because one of them was shouting that we have been hit. They (thugs) shattered the glasses of the vehicles. The incident caused panic in the area.”

The media aide to the governor’s wife, Iluyomade Oluwatumise, explained that the incident happened but there was no casualty.

“All I can tell you is that no life was lost in the incident. I can’t tell you the numbers of security operatives that were injured but some of them that were attached to the convoy sustained various degrees of injuries,” she stated.

The Public Relations Officer of the state police command, Yemisi Opalola, confirmed that five suspects had been arrested in connection with the attack.

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Meanwhile, the PDP has denied involvement in the attack on the convoy of Oyetola’s wife.

A statement by the PDP Media Director, Oladele Bamiji, read in part: “We have gone this far with the details of the incident to strongly deny allegations that PDP thugs were responsible for the self-inflicted attacks on the convoy of the First Lady.

“We call on the First Lady to apologize to the truck driver who was inhumanely treated. It is not enough to rush him to the hospital. The First Lady should atone for the sins of her overzealous escorts unless she was responsible for the directive to beat up the innocent driver.

“Instead of blaming the PDP, we call on officials of the outgoing government to be mindful of their interface with the people of Osun State. Our people have been badly governed with harsh economic pains under an inhuman administration,” PDP added.

Meanwhile, the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday condemned the attack on the convoy of the First Lady of the state, , describing it as primitive, barbaric, shameful, dangerous and wicked.

The state APC chairman, Prince Gboyega Famodun, in a statement issued by his Media Adviser, Chief Kola Olabisi, in Osogbo, the Osun State capital yesterday, stated that it was alarming that some disgruntled politicians could descend so low to the extent of needlessly injecting violence into politics.

Famodun wondered why the hitherto peaceful ancient Edeland could be turned into a perpetual abode of violence where the sacredness of the lives of fellow human beings means nothing to some desperado political power mongers.

Famodun wondered why some suspected political thugs had chosen to make themselves cheap instruments of violence, to heat up the state polity.

He explained that it is not proper for someone who is accused of theft to be romancing a baby goat as it’s on record that it was about two weeks ago that a pregnant woman and another indigene of Edeland were killed in gruesome manner over disagreement by some PDP members on the sharing formula of the leftover of the governorship campaign largesse.

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