A two-term member of the house of representatives, Akeem Adeyemi, would have been killed or injured by thugs working for the chairman of the disciplinary committee of the Park Management System, PMS, Mukaila Lamidi on Saturday.
Skimeh, as he is fondly called, is a former chairman of Atiba local government and a two-term serving honorable of Oyo Federal constituency, who is also one of the sons of late Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, Alaafin of Oyo.
Buses belonging to the Oyo prince and that of the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were vandalized at the alakia area in Ibadan, Oyo state.
At a popular fuel station at Alakia junction, just as they were arriving in Ibadan from Ife where they had gone for a family function, the notorious thugs, on sighting some of the buses with APC inscriptions, Auxiliary boys, who were at the spot at the time with their principal, jumped on the road, chasing the buses in the process.
“We were in Ibadan already. We had just got to Jeje petroleum station when we saw people coming in our direction. They were shouting ‘thief thief thief, get them, wound them, kill them…’. Our drivers tried their best before some of our people scampered for safety.
According OyoInsight, It was reported that “Some of our people got injured in the process as the windscreens of some of our buses were vandalized in the process,” one of the occupants of the buses who did not want their name in print for fear of attack.
In a chat with the Oyo prince, he said “we should just be grateful to God. We thank God for our lives. Let’s talk later…”
Only recently, the publicity secretary of Oyo APC, Olawale Sadare, condemned attacks on members of the opposition as well as the vandalization of billboards and property belonging to his party members.
