10 macheted, scores sustained gunshot wounds as PDP, APC clash in Osun

There was a massacre in Ile-Ife, the home of the Yorubas on Monday evening as members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) engaged in a fierce battle involving dangerous weapons, such as guns, swords , charms, axes and other harmful anti-human tools were freely used by the violent party members.

During the scuffle, no less than 10 people allegedly beat with machetes and axes while dozens suffered gunshot wounds in a pandemonium that lasted about two hours.

It was believed that the duo groups engaged in a firefight.

However, the two political parties denied that they were the architects of the problems that confused the entire old city.

The incident which occurred around 6pm of the day in the Ita-Akogun area of ​​the city caused residents, shopkeepers, traders, motorists and other road users to hastily escape the scene and flee to various locations to avoid being caught. by the warring members who went berserk and took the law into their own hands.

While the PDP accused the APC of invading their meeting to disrupt their campaign rally for both the presidential and senate elections scheduled for February this year in the city, the APC similarly accused the PDP of initiating the scuffle.

Meanwhile, the wounded from both sides said they went to different hospitals for medical care, while police intervention is said to have calmed the unrest.

Speaking about the development, the Vice Chairman, PDP More ward, Ile-ife, Segun Adefioye accused the APC of disrupting their peaceful meeting with weapons and injuring their members before the PDP members retaliated and turned to pandemonium.

In his own commentary, the PDP Chairman, Dr. Adekunle Akindele, blamed the APC for the attack saying their trademark is violence and pandemonium and called on the appropriate authorities to call on them to promote peace in the society not to disturb.

Also, an APC leader and the party spokesman, Chief Kola Olabisi, claimed that it was the PDP that launched an attack on the APC members and injured them.

However, he called for the order of the state police to get to the heart of the matter through thorough investigation and book the perpetrators.

In its response, the state police command said there were problems in Ife, but normality had been restored to the city.

Police spokesman Ms. Yemisi Opalola, speaking with our reporter, directed members of the public to behave in a lawful manner and allow harmony in society.