By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
Osun State Chapter of Accord Party (AP) has condemned the Monday attack on journalists and some other persons at Gbongan town.
Reports had it that members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) were on official assignment to cover the campaign of one of the governorship candidates contesting the July 16th election when they were attacked by hoodlums.
In a statement by the Media Team of the state governorship candidate, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, the party frowned at the “barbaric” action and called for the immediate arrest of the perpetrators.
“We totally condemned this attack on journalists and other innocent people going about their normal duties. The perpetrators and their sponsors should be held and be made to face the wrath of the law.
“We certainly know that supporters of both APC and PDP had for some time now were displaying their strength and to fish out the culprits security agents should look inward within the two political parties”.
The party said the plan was to subject the populace into palpable fear and to scare them away from coming out to vote so as to give opportunity to candidates with lower intelligent and capacity.
The party sympathized with the injured journalists and called on the electorate to shift their allegiance from the “epileptic and deceptive parties.”
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