No fewer than 3 poeple have been killed including the purportedly reinstated Chairman of Irewole Local Government, Osun State, Mr Remi Abass as clash between supporters of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) escalated in the state.
Thepage earlier reports that the conflict began when both parties attempted to enter the council secretariat, over controversy surrounding the Appeal Court judgement on sacked local government chairmen in the state.
It was gathered that the hoodlums, who were armed with cutlasses, guns, matchets, axes, broken bottles, and other dangerous weapons, displayed their weapons violently to register their presence in the invaded council areas and to get people scared from checking their ard activities.
Some of the councils where the presence of the thugs was felt are: Ayedaade, Boripe, Osogbo, Olorunda, Ila, Isokan, Irewole, Obokun, and Atakumosa local government areas of the state.
In Osogbo, heavy gunshots were recorded when PDP supporters and APC supporters clashed, while in Irewole local government in Ikire, there was a heavy clash between the PDP and APC supporters.
In Boripe LGA, hoodlums said to be members of the PDP shot two people dead.
An eyewitness account revealed that four persons were wounded in Iragbiji, Boripe local government area, and had been taken to a nearby hospital for medical attention.
Similarly, suspeected thugs reportedly killed the recently reinstated Chairman of Irewole Local Government, Remi Abass, of the state.
The deceased chairman was killed after arriving at the local government secretariat with his supporters.
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