One person was feared killed and many others injured on Saturday during the violence that marred the ward congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
It was gathered that the deceased who was simply identified as Jide, was stabbed to death after violence erupted in Ado ward 10 after the congress was said to had been concluded.
DAILY POST who monitored the exercise, observed that while the loyalists of the governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi rooted for consensus arrangement across the 177 wards, the other faction who are mostly members of the South West Agenda 2023 resisted this move and insisted on election. This development in some of the wards led to widespread violence across the state as thugs were allegedly unleashed on the people with many sustaining injuries and vehicles destroyed.
The chairperson of Ado Local Government, Mrs Omotunde Fajuyi, who participated in the congress in Ward 10, said the process was peaceful and devoid of any violence. Speaking on the ward congress, the state chairman of SWAGA, Senator Tony Adeniyi decried the widespread violence which marred the process, saying that there was no congress in the state.
On his part, a chieftain of the party and governorship aspirant, Chief Reuben Famuyibo, lamented that the politicians failed democracy in the state with the level of violence which characterised the ward congress.
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