Hired RTEAN thugs allegdly shoot six SDP members at Segun Oni’s rally

● As communities vow to vote SDP candidate

Some thugs who are members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), on Saturday, stormed two venues of the Social Democratic Party,  SDP, campaign rallies in Oye Local Government of Ekiti State.

Reportedly wearing the All Progressive Congress (APC) vests and loaded in five buses belonging to the APC,  they shot sporadically, in a bid to disrupt the SDP governorship  candidate’s rallies at Itaji-Ekiti and Oye-Ekiti.

In a press statement issued by Mr Jackson Adebayo, the Director of Media and Publicity of Segun Oni Campaign Organisation (SOCO) and made available to the journalists in Ado Ekiti on Saturday, the thugs allegedly sent by Mr Rotimi Olanbiwoninu a-k-a Mentilo, the Ekiti State Chairman of RTEAN began to shoot as the SDP governorship candidate, Asiwaju Segun Oni, was addressing SDP members and supporters at Itaji town.

According to Adebayo, three SDP members were shot and terribly wounded in Itaji but luck ran out for one of the RTEAN thugs who missed the bus and was arrested by party supporters who handed him over to the police.

The SOCO Spokesperson said that it took the mobile police and some soldiers on patrol about 30 minutes to bring the situation under control.

The unlucky thug confessed that they were sent by Mentilo and that he (Mentilo) was working for the Biodun Oyebamiji Campaign Organisation.

At Oye, said Adebayo, the RTEAN drivers allegedly shot three members of the SDP who were waiting for the arrival of Oni who was due to address party supporters in the town, adding that the thugs entered their buses and fled on seeing the mobile policemen that were following the campaign convoy of the SDP and the soldiers that were on patrol.

Notwithstanding the hullabaloo, at Itaji and Oye, the people trooped out en masse to welcome Oni, promising to vote for him, adding that the APC thugs coukd not intimidate or prevent them from coming out to vote on the Election Day.

The SDP candidate was told to go and sleep as nothing could change their support and love for him.

The injured SDP members have been taken to the hospital while the matter was reported to the Commissioner of Police.