Shot policewoman recuperating, says CP as APC, Oni, others condemn Ekiti by- election violence
Fayemi vows to punish perpetrators of killings
THE Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Babatunde Mobayo, has said that the policewoman shot during Saturday’s House of Assembly by- election in Ekiti East Constituency I of the state, is responding to treatment.
Mobayo said that contrary to widespread speculations in some quarters that a policewoman lost her life during the bloody poll, the victim only sustained gunshot wounds and was immediately rushed to the hospital for medicare.
The CP, who spoke with journalists via telephone in AdoEkiti, yesterday, through the command’s spokesman, ASP Sunday Abutu, said the shot police officer was being taken care of.
He said that three suspected perpetrators of the shootings had been arrested and detained at the police headquarters in Ado- Ekiti. EANWHILE, in solidarity with those who lost their lives during the by- election, former governor and governorship aspirant, Segun Oni, has cancelled his political programmes for seven days.
Oni, in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen yesterday, said the official commissioning of the Ijero Local Council Campaign House, had also been suspended. He described the situation as unfortunate and a slap on democracy.
MIn the same vein, the All Progressives Congress ( APC) in Ekiti State in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado- Ekiti by Director of Media and Publicity of the party, Sam Oluwalana, the party condemned the unwarranted shootings by suspected thugs.
In another development, a front line aspirant in the coming gubernatorial election in Ekiti State, Kayode Adaramodu, in a statement through his Media Office in Ado- Ekiti, has condemned the needless killings that trailed the by- election.
ESIDES, YIAGA Africa, yesterday, described as despicable and antithetical to the democratic rules of credible elections the report of elec
Btoral violence witnessed during the Ekiti East by- election held on Saturday, March 20, 2021.
YIAGA Director of Programmes, Cynthia Mbamalu, in Abuja noted that the unleashing of mayhem on the process was an assault on democracy and the sanctity of life.
N the meantime, Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, promised not to play politics with the killings of innocent people during the Ekiti East State Constituency I by- election last Saturday.
Fayemi stated this when he paid a condolence visit to Omuo- Ekiti, the headquarters of Ekiti East Local Council of the state where violence erupted during the by- election.
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