{"id":309780,"date":"2011-03-14T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/14\/how-i-was-attacked-at-campaign-rally-by-amosun\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T23:21:00","slug":"how-i-was-attacked-at-campaign-rally-by-amosun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/14\/how-i-was-attacked-at-campaign-rally-by-amosun\/","title":{"rendered":"How I was attacked at campaign rally, by Amosun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was like a scene from an action movie. Men and women, young and old scampered for safety. Horns blared deafeningly and vehicles screeched here and there as fear-gripped drivers made feverish bid to escape the violence in two attacks on the campaign train of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate Senator Ibikunle Amosun, last Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amosun and dozens of ACN supporters in a long convoy of vehicles had taken the broom revolution to Yewa \u2013 Owode, Oke\u2013Odan, Ajilete wards and Ilaro town; the home of General Tunji Olurin, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate \u00a0in Ogun.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first attack occurred around 4pm in the seedy junction of Sabo, \u00a0Ilaro. The other took place around 8:45pm in Oke Odan. A witness said the attack in Sabo was provoked by a commercial cyclist who ran into the convoy \u00a0and was knocked down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hordes of other \u00a0cyclists , the witness added, engaged Amosun\u2019s supporters in \u00a0a fight and were joined \u00a0by hoodlums.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nation visited the scene yesterday and counted 20 motorcycles that were damaged – their fuel tanks and tyres were cut open with machetes. \u00a0Shops were looted. Seven of Amosun\u2019s campaign buses were damaged by the hoodlums and political thugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The office of the Road Transport Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) and the PDP secretariat in Sabo – Ilaro were vandalised. \u00a0A barber \u2018s shop belonging to a resident, Tella Babatunde, was destroyed. Besides, he was injured. \u00a0Mr Jide Olagoke had a big gash on the head from matchete cut.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When calm returned to both communities, 12 persons were injured, some with machete cuts on their heads and others with gunshot wounds. The Nation was shown shrapnels from gunshot fired during the fracas. Amosun was injured on his head when stones were hurled at him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olurin, who \u00a0accused Amosun of \u201cintentionally causing the trouble\u201d in Ilaro to disrupt \u00a0President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s \u00a0visit to Ogun, said he was in Abeokuta on Thursday when the incident occured.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said Amosun had a problem with cyclists when one of them ran into his convoy and got knocked down.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, addressing the press last Friday at \u00a0his Abeokuta \u00a0home, Amosun blamed the two attacks on his campaign train at Sabo \u2013 Ilaro and Oke -Oda on persons loyal to Olurin and some influential PDP members whom, he alleged, \u00a0were thugs and urchins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amosun: \u201cTraditionally, we don\u2019t do campaign when it is late but because we had been delayed and attacked for hours in Ilaro, we could not get there on time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we got to Ajilete in Oke Odan \u00a0around 8.45pm, we told them that we just wanted to wave at them and come back \u00a0but they insisted, all of them in aso ebi. I heard a noise and I saw a woman; they just threw a stone at her with deep cut and I saw blood gushing out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I couldn\u2019t take it. \u00a0I rushed down, carried the woman to assist her; the next thing I saw was total blackout and the second stone came and hit me on the head; it was a deep cut; what could I do; they said we should get an ambulance and ferry her with me.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c I was given medical attention. I have some stitches here which everybody can see and even the woman, I just pray that nothing untoward happens to her because she also got a deep cut around one of her eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody that wants to campaign should feel free to come and sell his programme, sell his ideas and the electorate will be the judge; that the era of carrying guns, machetes, attacking people should be a thing of the past in Ogun State.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Amosun urged the security agencies to unravel influential people behind the sponsored attacks even as he maintained that both himself and ACN have the love of Yewa at heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

His words: \u201cBut we just want to use this opportunity to tell the good people of Yewa that Sen. Amosun as a person and our party, ACN love them and I know they love us. They should please expose all the people that want to give them bad names.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cYewa people are not known for violence. They are known to be peaceful people and in any case, we as a government and I as a governor will not look down on Yewa and Aworiland.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cFor me, we are one and the same and I\u2019m not going to be governor of Ogun Central, nor Ogun West or East. I am going to be governor of Ogun State and everybody will be represented.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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