The violence reportedly involved an APC candidate and members of his campaign team and some people alleged to be thugs loyal to the LP.
A statement by the party’s Director of Publicity and Strategy, Olawale Sadare, decried what it called a situation whereby culprits would rush to the press with “false” information in order to escape justice after a wrongdoing.
“Dozens of political thugs armed with weapons had waylaid the campaign train of our candidate for the Ogbomoso North/Ogbomoso South/Orire Federal Constituency, Mr Oyewole Oyewumi and attacked the members without provocation around General Hospital Area of Ogbomoso in broad daylight as they were coming from the venue of a meeting.
“It was an apparent case of an attempt on the life of Oyewumi, who is a son of the Soun of Ogbomosoland. The prince, accompanied by his supporters, was about entering his residence when thugs emerged from nowhere and started destroying vehicles belonging to the APC.
“One of the thugs went for Prince Oyewumi, but he was lucky to have escaped but not without suffering machete cuts. Eight other members of the APC who were on his campaign train also sustained varying degrees of injuries which landed them in the General Hospital, Ogbomoso and another private hospital where some of them are still receiving treatment.
“As if these were not enough, Alao-Akala went to the press to sponsor a report that his party members were attacked by the APC team even when preliminary investigations by the police revealed that the LP media agents were being economical with the truth.
“Some residents were able to identify 10 of the attackers and we are aware that only two of them have been arrested by the police so far, ” the APC said.
