Five members loyalists to the former governor of Osun and the minister of Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, have been remanded in Ilesha Corrections centre, over alleged Governor Oyetola sponsored thugs who attacked members of All Progressives Congress (APC) faction in Ikirun on Tuesday.
ADULAWONEWS gathered that Armed political hoodlums suspected to have been sponsored by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola-led IleriOluwa faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday attacked members of the party who belong to Hon Rasaq Salinsile faction.
ADULAWONEWS learnt that Salinsile faction was holding its Federal Constituency tour meeting in Ikirun, the headquarters of Ifelodun/Boripe/Odo-Otin Federal Constituency at an open ground beside the Ifelodun Local Government Council Secretariat when the thugs came on two different occasions to launch attack on them.
Recall that ADULAWONEWS had earlier reported that APC Faction Raised alarm over midnight arrest of the party leaders by Police.
The five party members we’re, Akinlade Abayomi (38yrs), Sodiq Atitebi (25yrs), Azeez Adejimi (28yrs), Solomon Alatayo (36yrs) and Siju Oyewumi (68yrs), arraigned on Wednesday, before magistrates’ Court sitting in Ikirun Ifelodun Local Government.
They were charged with three counts charges, also said to have conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace in the community.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Jacob Akintunde told the court that, “Abayomi, Atitebi, Adejimi, Alatayo, Oyewumi and others now at large on February 1st 2022 at 1:45 pm at Ikirun in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State conspired among themselves to wit unlawful society with intent to kill one Fatai Asimiyu by inflicting machete cuts on his head.”
Though the defendants pleaded not guilty to the offences of conspiracy, unlawful society, attempted murder and breach of the public peace, the police prosecutor told the Court that, the offences committed by five defendants contravened Section 516, 320 (1) and 249 (d) of the Criminal Code Cap. 34 Vol. II Laws of Osun State Nigeria 2002.
However, Defence counsel to the defendants, Mr Olatunbosun Oladipupo made an oral bail application for them on the most liberal terms which inspector Akintunde opposed.
He argued that “other suspects in connection with the crime are still at large and the matter may eventually lead to murder as the wounded person is still in hospital battling for his life.”
The presiding by magistrate Asimiyu Adebayo, ordered that the five defendants be remanded in Ilesha Corrections Facility and fixed the further hearing on the case till February 23rd 2022.