The former Commissioner for Works and Transport in Osun State, Engr. Oluremi Omowaiye, has been atacked in Ilesha by unidentified hoodlums.
It was reported that the former Commissioner had visited a popular spare parts market in Isida to celebrate yuletide with the traders.
Omowaiye’s Personal Assistant Yakub Atanda shared via his Facebook page that “Everything was going smoothly before some hoodlums surfaced from nowhere to hurl bottles, stones and other dangerous objects at our entourage. They shot sporadically at us.”
While Omowaiye escaped without any injury, many members of his entourage and mobilisers of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ilesa present at the event, were not that lucky as they were seriously injured by the attackers.
The APC Youth Leader in Ilesa West Ward 3, Opeyemi One, Tosin Adanlawo, Ojo Agboola and Junior Olaojaoke were some of the members of Omowaiye’s entourage attacked and were receiving treatment for various degrees of injuries.
Speaking to journalists after the incident, Omowaiye said, “I have many reasons to believe those unhappy I am still around in the state to galvanise support for our party are the characters behind the assassination attempt on my person.
“They have been on my trail for months. They reason that when I and other leaders of the party are taken out or sent out of the state, our rank will fall apart and they would have an edge in the next year’s elections.
“We are resolute: we won’t leave the state for them. We will continue to mobilise for our party so we can truimph at the poll. Asiwaju Tinubu is the next president of Nigeria, by God’s grace and our principal shall get back the mandate freely given to him by our people. Our hope is on God and the good people of Osun State who we served meritoriously and would want our party back in government in the state.”