Suspected thugs attacked the campaign team of the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, in Lagos State’s Badagry Local Government Area on Sunday.
WITHIN NIGERIA, it was discovered that Jandor’s team was attacked on their way back from a visitation to Ikoga Junction in the Badagry Local Government Area.
The PDP’s governorship candidate visited the local government to solicit community support ahead of the 2023 elections.
Several members of Jandor’s team were injured, including journalists, with one of them reportedly in critical condition.
Hakeem Amode, a spokesperson for the JandorFunke 2023 Campaign Council, confirmed the news.
According to Amode, the injured team members are being treated at an undisclosed hospital.
He claimed that the ruling party paid for the thugs who attacked the campaign trail.
The PDP Publicity Secretary said;
You will recall that our party raised concern over the threat to use APC-sponsored thugs to attack the campaign programs of our Gubernatorial candidate Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran-JANDOR recently and we would like to state categorically that this will not deter the determination of our candidate to campaign for the next election and win the election come March 29, 2023.
We would like to call on the Commissioner of Police of Lagos state and the Area Commander of Police in the Badagry division to do everything possible to fish out those behind the attack and necessary disciplinary actions taken against them to forestall such occurrences in the future and to instil confidence in our members that they will be protected during this campaign period.
We would like to also strongly warn those that are hell-bent on causing trouble or planning to disrupt the campaign and elections that we would not fold our arms and watch as we will resist all forms of intimidation.