Many other members of the APC also sustained injuries in the attack.
at Ile-Tuntun in Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State and reportedly gunned down three members of the party.
The party’s state assembly candidate in constituency 2, Wariths Alawuje, said he was at the meeting but narrowly escaped being hit. Another party member, who identified himself simply as Adewale to PREMIUM TIMES, said the gun wielding thugs carried out the attack in a commando-like manner.“This is a political attack, when they entered they were behaving as if they had been ordered to kill us all.
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