The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Mr Jide Awe, says Dr Kayode Fayemi was an objective of shooting amid the gathering's rally on Friday. The APC was holding its departure crusade for the July 14 governorship decision at its secretariat in Ado-Ekiti when what seemed, by all accounts, to be an inadvertent release happened.
A previous individual from the House of Representatives, Opeyemi Bamidele, and another gathering dependable were injured by an outfitted policeman because of the occurrence. Despite the fact that the police experts in the state have affirmed the episode, they said they have started an examination concerning the shooting.
The gathering executive, notwithstanding, revealed to Channels Television that the shooting was gone for Fayemi, the gathering's governorship applicant, while Bamidele adventitiously fell casualty of the shot. He likewise said the man who discharged the shot was wearing a versatile police uniform, focusing on that the previous Reps part was strolling with the previous priest.
"When he shot at the group, I accept genuinely that he (the police) went for Dr Kayode Fayemi however barely, he (Fayemi) was pushed by some individual strolling behind him," Mr Awe uncovered amid a phone meet on Politics Today.
"Opeyemi Bamidele was similarly exceptionally close him and the shot hit him. However, I can state definitively that he's not severely hit, and he is recuperating as we are talking," he included.
The APC director, who saw the occurrence, noticed that those at the scene thought the shot was discharged by an overeager officer who was attempting to pay regard to the previous clergyman. He said was simply coming back from the healing facility and continuing to another medicinal office where the other shot casualty was being taken care of.
Gotten some information about his claim that Fayemi was the objective of the shooting, Jide demanded, "To a sensible degree since he and Bamidele were strolling together however barely, he was pushed by some individual behind him (despite the fact that not deliberate).
The occurrence happened two days after Dr Fayemi surrendered his situation from President Muhammadu Buhari's bureau as the Minister of Solid Minerals Development. He surrendered two weeks and some days after the previous pastor won the APC rescheduled essential race which hung on May 12.
