Hoodlums stab Labour Party chieftain in Osun

Rabiu Ismaila, a Labour Party (LP) chieftain, was stabbed by hoodlums in Atakunmosa East Local Government Area, Osun State.

Rabiu said he was attacked when he and others were pasting posters of a House of Representatives candidate in Osun State’s Atakunmosa East Local Government Area.

“I am still receiving treatments at Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa after I was hacked by PDP political thugs. The thugs are from Iwara. I was attacked on November 30th by six of those thugs. I was attacked because I pasted the posters of Labour Party House of Representatives candidate, Kunle Gideon, popularly known as Aloba. That is my only offence. We are living in fear in that area,” Rabiu told Sahara Reporters.

Some members of the party in the Ijeshaland communities of Owode, Igangan, and Olopon have also cried out in protest of the “ongoing attacks.”

They claimed that they were attacked three times a week.

Commenting on the attacks, Comrade Bello Adebayo, the state chairman of the Labour Party, urged the Commissioner of Police, Sunday Faleye, to arrest and prosecute the thugs who attacked party members.