With barely 15 days to the August 9, governorship
election in Osun State, supporters of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate,
Governor Rauf Aregbesola and those of the People
Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyiola Omisore
yesterday in Ilesa engaged themselves in a bloody
clash, leaving two persons dead.
It was gathered that supporters of the two political
gladiators clashed at Irojo area of Ilesa using various
dangerous weapons.
Although the identity of the deceased could not be
ascertained as at press time, it was gathered that
they were beaten with charms before they finally
gave up the ghost.
The Public Relations Officer of the state command of
the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC),
Mr. Ayo Olowo who confirmed this said normalcy
had since returned to Ilesa.
Reacting to the ugly incident the APC in a statement
by its spokesperson, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi alleged that
the PDP thugs burnt billboards of the APC
governorship candidate and shot sporadically,
causing residents to flee .
“The APC condemn in the strongest term the
recourse to violence by desperate politicians in the
PDP who have been boasting publicly to use every
means including federal might to remove the APC
from power in the state,” he stated.
Also, the PDP in a statement by Omisore’s Director of
Media and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi blamed
the APC for the violence recorded in Ilesa and other
parts of the state, alleging that the APC was
responsible for the clash.
Odeyemi noted that the APC governorship candidate
had instigated his supporters to resolve to violence,
saying that “Aregbesola had at different occasions
called on his loyalists to go to campaigns and even
polling centres fully armed.”
He condemned the resolve of the APC to violence,
saying that “the era of do or die should have gone for
good in Nigerian politics.
The Joint Task Force was later sent to the state to
bring peace and order to the place although the APC
frowned at the development saying the Presidency
must have sent them to cow APC supporters.

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