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Bloody as Bankole's supporters, Area Boys
clash in Abeokuta

By NIYI OGUNGBOLA, Abeokuta
Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011

THE campaign team of the Speaker of House of Representative, Hon. Dimeji Bankole clashed with suspected street urchins in Abeokuta leaving a tale of woes in the mouth of an innocent victim, Samuel Kolawole. Mr. Kolawole a judicial worker lives at No. 74, NUD Road , Isabo in Abeokuta metropolis where the incident happened at about 7p.m.
Narrating his ordeal, Mr. Kolawole said he returned to work to met Bankole's rally close to his house but suddenly heard sporadic gun shots.
"I hurriedly took my wife and we locked our entrance door. But I later realised that my little boy was not with me. Then I tried to search for him in the passage of our house.
"It was in the process of searching for him that I was hit by gunshots that penetrated through our door, I was taken to a nearby hospital where 23 pellets were removed from my body, he explained.
"As I am standing now, the leg is paining me seriously. I am not a politician, I was in my room when it happened," he said.
Meanwhile, the media aide of Hon. Dimeji Bankole, Mr Kayode Odunaro, described Kolawole's story as unfounded, saying that the reverse was the case.
According to Odunaro, hoodlums attacked the campaign train of speaker Bankole, when they got to Isabo area, adding that the attack had been reported to the state Director of State Security Services (SSS), state Commissioner of Police as well as the Police Area Commander.
He said that he was unaware that anybody was shot during the campaign.