Suspected hoodlums in the early hours of Wednesday reportedly attacked the campaign office of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akure, Ondo State capital.
Spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation in the state, Mr. Kayode Fasua, said the hoodlums stormed the Ijapo office of the PDP campaign council and descended on the security man on duty.
Fasua, who condemned the attack, said banners, billboards and posters and other campaign materials were also destroyed by the attackers.
“They arrived in the wee hours of the day at a time the security guards in the Ijapo, Akure area of our office would have closed from duty and descended on our campaign office.
“Numbering about 10, and fully armed, they descended on our private security guard, beat him to a pulp and then tied him with ropes.
“After that, they proceeded by dismantling the Atiku billboards, and then tearing all his posters.
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“Not done, these agents of the devil went ahead to break window panels and kept shouting “where are those documents, where are those documents!
“But, having failed in their evil deed, they retreated, shooting sporadically,” he said.
Fasua charged the security agents to investigate the attack, fish out the perpetrators and bring them to book.
Eyitayo Jegede, the Director General of the Atiku Campaign Organisation in the state, described the attack as barbaric and alien to the spirit of democracy.
But Femi Joseph, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), said the command was not aware of the incident.
