Residents and business owners were thrown into confusion on Thursday when suspected political hoodlums engaged themselves in an exchange of gunfire at Akute, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State.
gathered that supporters of two political parties were engaging in a campaign ahead of the governorship and state House of Assembly Elections when they ran into themselves at a connecting section not far from the abandoned bridge in Akute.
According to eyewitnesses, some other thugs who were not armed with weapons including guns, hauled stones and other objects at their opponents as traders and residents around the scene of the clash scampered for safety.
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