Guns, Bullets And Mayhem As Tinubu, El Rufai Factions Clash in Ondo

The Ondo State APC crisis is taking on the characteristics of a jungle war, where everything goes: wit, foul play, ballistic missiles, whatever, are accepted depending on who wields them. This was the picture publicly painted recently of the party when two groups loyal to different APC super gladiators, one representing the western block and another representing the Northern oligarchy fighting for the soul of Ondo State, met and inflicted heavy injuries on their rivals.


Fight broke out when supporters of Abraham, who held a rally somewhere in the Akure metropolis to ask that the “stolen” mandate given to Akeredolu by the party’s National Working Committee, (NWC) be restored, were attacked at the party secretariat in Akure. Placards displayed by the protesters had such inscriptions as “With Abraham we stand” “Restore Abraham’s mandate” “Abraham is APC’s candidate” and “Abraham is the authentic winner of September 3 primary”.

Dangerous materials, including guns were freely used as the supporters of Akeredolu and Abraham, engaged in a free for all fight. Journalists and party supporters fled in different directions as the miscreants hijacked the protest and attacked those at the party secretariat. About 20 policemen with Armoured Personnel Carriers were deployed to the party secretariat to restore peace. An unspecified number of party supporters and passers-by reportedly sustained injuries during the bloody skirmish.
Spokesperson of the protesters Rotimi Agbede said: “We are protesting against the name submitted by the national leadership of our party. If as a party, we are preaching anti-corruption and a sane society, we cannot be seen to be doing otherwise. We don’t want some people to drag our party to self-destruction. We are of the belief that the national leadership will see reasons with what we are saying.”

According to Abraham, the attack on his supporters was sponsored by Akeredolu: “It was a peaceful rally asking for our mandate to be restored and not to be delayed. All of a sudden, the Aketi people came and attacked the people. Is this the kind of thugs we want to put in power? Is it thuggery they use for governance? Thuggery is a different form of governance.”

An aide to Mr. Akeredolu, however, denied that he sponsored the attack, describing the candidate as a peaceful man who would not encourage violence in any form.

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