Prince Akeem Adeyemi, one of the sons of the late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, was on Saturday attacked by thugs working for the chairman of the disciplinary committee of the Park Management System, (PMS), Mr Mukaila Lamidi.
Adeyemi, a two-term member of the House of Representatives representing Oyo Federal Constituency was alongside his loyalists and friends attacked while they were arriving in Ibadan from Ile-Ife , Osun State where they had gone for a family function.
According to the information scooped from OYOINSIGHT.COM, one of the victims who pleaded anonymity, Informed that buses belonging to the Lawmaker and that of the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) were vandalised in the process.
The victim further narrated “At a popular fuel station at Alakia junction, just as they were arriving Ibadan from Ife where they had gone for a family function, the notorious thugs, on sighting some of the buses with APC inscriptions, Auxiliary boys, who were at the spot at the time with their principal, jumped on the road, chasing the buses in the process.
“We were in Ibadan already. We had just got to Jeje petroleum station when we saw people coming in our direction. They were shouting ‘thief thief thief, get them, wound them, kill them…’. Our drivers tried their best before some of our people scampered for safety.
“Some of our people got injured in the process as the windscreens of some of our buses were vandalized in the process”.
Confirming the incident, the Oyo prince, Hon. Adeyemi popularly known as Skimeh said, “we should just be grateful to God. We thank God for our lives”.
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