Omowaiye told Premium Times that some of his aides were stabbed and one of his security details was severely injured.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Suspected hoodlums attacked a former Commissioner for Works and Transportation in Osun State, Remi Omowaiye, at a market in Ilesa on Friday.
Omowaiye, who was a state official during the Oyetola administration, was in the market to distribute free food items to traders such as rice and cows for the festive season.
The name of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, was inscribed on the cows.
According to eyewitnesses, the assailants arrived at the market on motorcycles at 6:22 pm, throwing stones and bottles at the former commissioner and his aides before resorting to shooting sporadically.
Omowaiye told Premium Times that some of his aides were stabbed and one of his security details was severely injured.
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“They injured one of my security attache, they pelted him with stones, they stabbed some of my boys,” he said.
Mr Omowaiye said the thugs also damaged three vehicles in his convoy with bullets.
“We had like four to five vehicles in the convoy but it was three vehicles that were inside the market. They broke the windscreen of the vehicle I entered and the vehicle behind me was riddled with bullets and the glass was broken,” he said.
The former commissioner added, “It was a pure case of assassination. Why would they shoot? Of course if I did not have security yesterday I would have been killed, that’s the bitter truth.”
Osun police spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, confirmed the incident.