Ekiti Deputy Governor escapes lynching from APC as one shot

A member of the All Progressives Congress, Jide Owolabi, was reportedly shot on

Saturday as members of the opposition party challenged the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Olubunmi Olusola-Eleka, during the presidential election.

It was gathered that problem started when Olusola-Eleka was moving around the polling units in Ikere Ekiti to monitor the accreditation process.

According to the incumbent senator and candidate of the APC for Ekiti South Federal Constituency, Anthony Adeniyi, aggrieved youths who saw his action as violating the electoral law accosted him and asked him to return to his polling unit.

Adeniyi claimed that Owolabi was shot on the buttocks by one of the security operatives attached to the deputy governor when argument ensued.

But Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in a statement denied that security men attached to Olusola-Eleka shot any APC member.

Adelusi said rather, it was the APC “thugs” stationed along Odo Oja Area in Ikere Ekiti that ambushed Olusola-Eleka and almost killed him, though he managed to escape.

The statement said, “The Deputy Governor received a call that card reader machines in some polling booths were not functioning.

“Dr. Olubunmi Olusola-Eleka decided to visit the polling booths, based on the reports, but at Odo Oja Area, some APC thugs who apparently had been stationed there to cause violence in Ikere welcomed the deputy governor’s convoy with stones and the security attached to him had to shoot in the air to disperse them.

“We are amazed about the lies being circulated in the media by the APC that an APC member was shot by the deputy governor’s security. The security agents monitoring the election saw what happened.”

A former governor and leader of the APC in the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, told one of our correspondents that he received security report that the ruling PDP was responsible.