Edo election: Obaseki’s campaign train attacked, 5 people abducted

The build up to the 2016 governorship election in Edo state got messy over the weekend as men suspected to be thugs attacked the campaign train of the APC candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki at Illushi, near Ubiaja, in Esan South-east Local Government Area of the state.

The thugs abducted five members of Obaseki’s team, injuring ten others.

The APC candidate has accused the opposition PDP of being behind the attack.

He said it was a vicious and desperate attempt by the PDP to intimidate him, and that his “calmness should not be taken for foolishness”.

He called on the security operatives in the state to fish out the abductors, stating that the matter had been reported at the Divisional Police Headquarters at Ubiaja, Esan South East.

Obaseki said “there was an earlier threat that we should not come to IIushi to campaign, but we said we must go to llushin. We got there, had a peaceful rally at Illushi and part of my convoy was waylaid, and supporters abducted, taken into the bush, beaten, molested and some of them have been gravely hurt. We do not expect this level of violence from the PDP supporters at Illushi.

“I have always believed in peaceful campaign and despite this, I have appealed to our supporters to be calm, we are law abiding people. But the PDP must produce those abducted; that is criminal and wicked. We cannot be intimidated, and you know what, they should not take our calmness for foolishness.”

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