The Publicity Secretary of the
All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, has admitted that
members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers who clashed at the
flag-off of the party’s campaign in the state and stabbed a factional leader of
the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Musiliu Akinsanya, are
members of the party.
Igbokwe, who confirmed that the
hoodlums who stabbed Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo, were engaged in a
supremacy battle, wondered why they brought the fight to the campaign ground.
He stated this while reacting to
comments on a Facebook post he made concerning the rally.
The APC chieftain, while thanking
residents of Lagos in the post, said he had never witnessed such a massive
turnout of supporters since he became the publicity secretary of the party in
2007.
“NURTW took their gang war to our
venue, but thank God it was not worse. We are overcomers,” he later added in a
comment.
A Facebook fan, Adeniyi Jones,
who mentioned the names of some gang leaders, including late Small Jpron,
tackled Igbokwe.
He said hoodlums in the NURTW
were members of the party in the South-West; to which Igbokwe replied: “We are
not denying they are our members, but must they take their struggle for power
and supremacy to our campaign ground to endanger other people?”
Recall that no fewer than eight
persons were reportedly injured during the rally, including three journalists
who sustained gunshot injuries.
MC Oluomo is currently receiving
treatment at the Eko Hospital, Ikeja.
The Police had declared another
leader of the NURTW, Mustapha Adekunle, aka Seigo, wanted over his alleged
involvement in the bloody clash.
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