Abiodun, Adebutu conflict as APC clears Ogun LG seats

The All Progressives Congress has gained all of the 20 native authorities chairmanship and 236 councillors positions within the council elections held in Ogun on Saturday.

The Chairman of the Ogun State Unbiased Electoral Fee, Babatunde Osibodu, introduced the outcomes on Sunday on the fee’s headquarters in Abeokuta.

Osibodu stated 19 political events, together with the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, participated within the election.

 In the meantime, the Ogun State authorities on Sunday accused the PDP governorship candidate within the 2023 common elections, Oladipupo Adebutu, of assembling some policemen who reportedly opened hearth on the newly elected Vice Chairman of Ikenne Native Authorities, Mohammed Efuwape, and one other voter merely recognized as Biola at Iperu in the course of the Saturday ballot.

Governor Dapo Abiodun’s Chief Press Secretary, Lekan Adeniran, made the allegation in an announcement on Sunday.

 Adeniran stated that whereas the Vice Chairman escaped loss of life by whiskers, Biola was not so fortunate because the gun fired at him by these alleged cops shattered his leg, and he’s at the moment receiving medical therapy on the hospital.

 The assertion claimed that “Adebutu illegally introduced in over 40 policemen from MOPOL 49 in Lagos, with PDP thugs using on Okadas, going round and attempting to grab poll containers whereas brandishing weapons and different weapons within the Ikenne Native Authorities of their determined try to scuttle the electoral course of.”

However  Adebutu’s media aide, Afolabi Orekoya, in an announcement on Sunday, described the allegations by the state authorities as “lies from the pit of hell and an try to cowl up the intimidation and oppression of the folks of Ogun East in the course of the native authorities’s election.”

Orekoya accused Governor Abiodun of selling thuggery and violence in Ogun East.

Giving an account of Saturday’s incident, Orekoya stated, “Adebutu’s son was attacked by a bunch of thugs within the neighbourhood very near Adebutu’s home, not at a polling unit however on his technique to the home.

“Whereas the thugs started to shoot of their regular method, they shot one of many policemen hooked up to Hon. Adebutu nonetheless round his home and never at any polling unit as claimed by the federal government. The shot policeman was rapidly rescued and brought to the hospital.

“The thugs and their paymaster, together with the governor’s safety operatives, had been all working hand in hand and so they stormed Hon. Adebutu’s home, claiming it was on the instruction of the Inspector Basic who had been fed with the unsuitable account of the incident.

“After about forty minutes, armed policemen with armoured tanks and vans, numbering over 100, stormed Hon. Adebutu’s home to arrest Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, however he requested for his arrest warrant, and so they couldn’t produce any.  They left his home after about one hour of holding him hostage.”