No fewer than two people were feared dead and several others injured on Friday when two factions of the Peoples Democratic Party engaged in a gun battle in Ogbomoso, Oyo State.
Ogbomoso woke up to sporadic gunshots by some political hoodlums, who were out to abort a planned rally by some PDP chieftains, who included former Governor Rashidi Ladoja, Senator Lekan Balogun, Chief Teslim Folarin, Alhaji Yinus Akintunde, Chief Sharafadeen Alli, and Chief Ayo Adeseun.
Other political leaders in the Ladoja-led group included Alhaji Fatai Buhari, Chief Ademola Alalade, Ambassador Yomi Akintola, and Ademola Adejumobi.
Oyo State governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, who is an indigene of Ogbomoso, was said to be on a foreign trip. As early as 10 am, some youths suspected to be sympathetic to the second-term bid of Alao-Akala made bonfires and drove round Ogbomoso, firing gunshots into the air.
The tense situation made residents to stay indoors as gun-wielding hoodlums, chanting belligerent songs, spoiled for war.
Some of the hoodlums positioned themselves at the entry points of the town – ostensibly to ward off the entourage from Ibadan.
The hoodlums stationed themselves at Taki area, which falls within Ogbomoso-North Local Government Council, where Alao-Akala comes from.
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