Hoodlums suspected to be political thugs, have been said to have attacked Oranmiyan House, the campaign office of Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, and former governor of Osun state.
The building located in the Coca Cola Area of the state capital, Osogbo, was previously attacked by thugs during a meeting of The Osun Progressives (TOP), a group loyal to Aregbesola, in November 2021.
In the latest incident, a resident source said the thugs invaded the Oranmiyan House, minutes after some party members ended their meeting at the building around 5:30pm on Thursday.
They reportedly shot at the building, damaging some sections of it. They were said to have also shot at a transformer located beside the building and a canopy erected in front of the secretariat which caught fire.
When contacted, Yemisi Opalola, the spokesperson of the Osun Police Command, said the command is yet to get details of the “true picture” of what happened at the Oranmiyan House.
Opalola, however, said security operatives have been deployed to the area to find out what happened.
In recent times, the political atmosphere in Osun has become heated due to the conflict between loyalists of Gboyega Oyetola, governor of Osun, and Aregbesola’s supporters.
On Tuesday, hoodlums attacked the Aregbesola faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikirun where they were holding a meeting beside the Ifelodun LGA council secretariat.
