***As contituents promise to vote SDP candidate
Some thugs alleged to be members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) dressed in All Progressive Congress (APC) vests in five buses carrying APC logo, unleashed mayhem on the campaign rally venues of the Social Democratic Party(SDP) in Itaji Ekiti and Oye Ekiti all in Oye Local Government Area of Ekiti State with sporadic gun shots on Saturday.
A press statement issued by the Director of Media and Publicity of Segun Oni Campaign Organisation (SOCO) Mr Jackson Adebayo,
on Saturday, he alleged that the thugs were sent by Mr Rotimi Olanbiwoninu a-k-a Mentilo.
The statement indicated that the Ekiti State Chairman of RTEAN began to shoot as the SDP governorship candidate, Asiwaju Segun Oni was addressing SDP members and supporters at Itaji town.
According to Adebayo, three SDP members were shot and terribly wounded in Itaji but luck ran out for one of the RTEAN thugs who missed the bus and was arrested by party supporters who handed him over to the police.
The SOCO Spokesman said that it took the mobile police and some soldiers on patrol about 30 minutes to bring the situation under control.
The unlucky thug confessed that they were sent by Mentilo and that he(Mentilo) was working for the Biodun Oyebamiji Campaign Organisation.
At Oye, Adebayo indicated that the RTEAN drivers allegedly shot three members of the SDP who were waiting for the arrival of Oni due to address party supporters in the town, adding that the thugs entered their buses and fled on sighting the mobile policemen that on the campaign convoy of the SDP and the soldiers that were on patrol.
Notwithstanding the hullabaloo, at Itaji and Oye, the people trooped out enmass to welcome Oni, promising to vote for him, adding that the APC thugs cannot intimidate or prevent them from coming out to vote on the election day.
The SDP candidate was told to go and sleep as nothing can change their support and love for him.
The injured SDP members have been taken to the hospital while the matter was reported to the Commissioner of Police.