The Labour Party has cried out over alleged attempts on the life of its candidate in Saturday’s Osun State governorship election, Yusuff Lasun.
The Labour Party alleged that thugs dressed in police uniforms, in a commando style, attempted to snuff the life out of its party’s gubernatorial candidate in the wee hours of Monday, the 11th day of July 2022.
Tey claimed shots were fired sporadically at his residence in Ilobu, Osun State but were repelled by dutiful policemen and other security personnel attached to him.
It was gathered that Lasun had fled his house as no one was killed in the attack.
the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, maintained that there was a belief “by the public opinion that the attack was motivated by the brilliant and very incisively thrilling performance of Yusuf Lasun of the LP Osun State at the Channel’s TV governorship debate.
According to Arabambi, Lasun had “out-performed and clearly exposed the lack of requisite capacity and knowledge of the Governor of the State, Gboyega Oyetola, who is also the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).”
Arabambi reported that over 100 fully armed thugs dressed in police uniforms attacked Lasun’s house overnight.
“It is strongly believed that the intention is to assassinate the candidate,” he stressed.
He said the assailants kept shooting at midnight for over one hour but were rebuffed by the timely intervention of the police personel, other security agents and people of the community.
“It is a shame that in 2022, the APC had once again brought back the forgotten era of harassment and intimidation of the opposition, still it is better understood by the APC that in today’s Nigeria, the people will stoutly resist any and all kinds of political intimidation and harassment of the opposition political parties.
“It must be loudly said and must be clearly noted by all Nigerians that the APC government deliberately and consciously tried through the illegal use of the armed thugs dressed in police uniform to incapacitate our candidate in the pursuit of an electoral campaign, thinking by that, he could be cowed and thus be rendered unable to participate fully and effectively in the election to pave the way for the APC candidate,” Arabambi lamented.