A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Adams Oshiomhole, was on Tuesday involved in a car crash.
The accident left two policemen attached to Oshiomhole’s
convoy dead.
The crash happened when an articulated vehicle lost control
and ran into Oshiomhole’s convoy near Oluku junction in the Ovia North-East
Local Government Area of Edo State.
In a statement, his media aide Victor Oshioke, insisted it
was an assassination attempt.
“It is pertinent to state, without fear of contradiction,
that the convoy of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was maintaining legal speed limits
when this incident occurred.
“This explains why the trailer travelling in the same
direction, overran the Hilux truck off the road and still hit the SUV carrying
Comrade Oshiomhole, causing substantial damage.
“Without prejudice to police investigations, eyewitnesses
account of the incident suggest, and we believe rightly too, that this was an
assassination attempt, targeting Comrade Adams Oshiomhole,” part of the
statement read.
The Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, in a statement
signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe
Osagie, said: “I received the news of the accident with shock and commiserate
with the former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the
candidate of the APC in the forthcoming governorship election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu
over the very unfortunate incident involving their security aides and top
chieftains of the party in the campaign team.”
Obaseki prayed for “strength for the families of the
deceased persons” and the “the quick recovery of those who were injured”.
Oshiomhole was on his way to Usen, to join the APC campaign
train for the September 19 Governorship Election. This led to the party
candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, calling off his rally.
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