One person was on Thursday feared killed and many others injured after hoodlums clashed in Oto Awori, Ijanikin, Lagos.....
One person was on Thursday feared killed and many others injured after hoodlums clashed in Oto Awori, Ijanikin, Lagos.
To register their protest, it was gathered that Oto Awori people had warned that campaigners for the party’s candidate should not come to their community since their son, a former Local Government Chairman and his supporters were still bruised. A young man was allegedly beaten to death, while many others sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to a nearby hospital.
The Nation gathered that it took the intervention of the police and soldiers to restore normalcy in the area.
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