Peter Dada, Akure
The senator representing the Ondo South
Senatorial District, Yele Omogunwa was on Thursday assaulted by the
residents of the Okitipupa, the headquarters of Okitipupa Local
Government Area of Ondo State during the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to
the palace of the monarch of Idepe town, Oba Michael Adetoye.
Similarly,
a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Idanre/
Ifedore Federal Constituency, Mr. Bamidele Baderinwa too was beaten blue
black by some youths in Idanre on Wednesday during the Osinbajo’s visit
to the traditional ruler Idanre town.
It took the intervention of the security details of the Vice President, who took the lawmaker away from the scene, to save him.
Senator
Omogunwa, who is the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives
Congress in the forthcoming general election, was said to be in the
company of the Vice President when the incident happened.
It was
gathered that the angry youths carried out the attack on the senator
following his alleged woeful performance and poor representation of the
district.
One of the youths of the town, speaking on the
condition of anonymity said, “He ( senator) was beaten because he
neglected us in the senatorial district, he carried out no constituency
projects in the past three years we have elected him”
“He does
not have any constituency office in this town, he was not accessible, we
couldn’t reach him for over three years, so what does he want here?
Election is coming now, so he wants to cajole us again, that will not be
possible” he added.
Meanwhile, the Vice President, in the last
three days, had visited the traditional rulers and market women in
Akure, Ondo, Okitipupa, Idanre, Ile Oluji and Akoko area of the state.
During
Osinbajo’s visit to the Osemawe of Ondo, Oba Victor Kiladejo appealed
to the VP to expedite action on the process of upgrading the Adeyemi
College of Education, Ondo to a university of education.
The
traditional ruler also urged Osinbajo, that if the current
administration wins the next election, he should influence the
dualization of Akure-Ondo-Ore road project.
In his response,
Osinbajo said all the requests of the traditional ruler would be looked
into, promising that something would be done.
He said, “All your
requests will be looked into, the ACE deserves a university status and
it would be done. The dualisation will be done. We are investing in
infrastructure.
“We have put a substantial amount of money on
Lagos-Kano railway project and the first phase of the project has been
completed and will be inaugurated in a few days from now.”
Source:- Punchng
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