Investigate Agege LG congress killing, APC leaders tell police

Leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Agege federal constituency yesterday urged the police to investigate the circumstances that led to the death of a party member at the party’s local government congress in Agege last Saturday. They are equally calling on relevant security agencies to ensure that the culprits indicted in the incident be brought to book. Addressing journalists in Lagos yesterday, the party leaders, led by the Speaker of the state Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, decried the violence that erupted after the congress had been successfully concluded leading to the death of a party member, Nurudeen Olanose.
Speaking earlier, the chairman of Agege local government, Alhaji Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi, stated that the congress had been concluded successfully before supporters and thugs loyal to a House of Assembly aspirant in the local government unleashed terror on the people. “I was even back in my office after the successful completion of the congress when I was informed the violence being unleashed on the people,” he said. Obasa stated that the leadership of the party should investigate the killing of Olanose.
“The police should also do the needful by not only investigating the death of Olanose but also ensuring that those found culpable be brought to book,” the Lagos Assembly Speaker said. According to him, the APC is a united party in Agege, saying: “You can see that all the party leaders are here, so we have no crisis. It’s the inordinate ambition of one man that’s causing this violence.”