A senator of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria has escaped assassination. Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta
Central at the National Assembly, his wife and some top members of the All
Progressives Congress were attacked by some youths in what is believed to be
assassination attempt.
Two people sustained life
threatening injuries in the process Two persons have sustained injuries as
armed men attacked the senator representing Delta Central at the National
Assembly Ovie Omo-Agege during an empowerment programme.
The senator was attacked along with
his wife and some top members of the All Progressives Congress in what his now
believed to be an assassination attempt on Saturday July 15.
He was attacked when he visited the
Effurun market located along the popular PTI road during one of his
constituency empowerment programme in Effurun, Ekpan and Ugberikoko areas of
Uvwie, Punch reports.
Speaking about the incident,
Omo-Agege said: “There is Igho Majemite, there is Wilson Oki, these are all
known thugs in Uvwie. I don’t know who sent them to assassinate me. But I was
lucky because the bullet grazed through my right ear. If I was not lucky I
would have been dead.
Two bullets were shot at me; one was
shot by Ayeye and another bullet was shot at me by Ngozi and also, my brother
was shot. “Also, we have one of my supporters who were almost killed at Ekpan
market all in the presence of police officers who could not even effect any
arrest. I have taken a first step by filing a report with the Ekpan Police
Division. I have equally spoken with the State Commissioner of Police. “I will
take it to the highest level.
All I seek is that these undesirable
elements who are out to assassinate people are removed from the system. And I
will go to any extent to see to this. You cannot attempt to kill a sitting
Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
I refuse to read any political
motivation to this. I’m not in any way saying that there is none. “For those
who were beaten and those who were equally shot at, like me, I can assure them
that we will get to the very bottom of it.
Everybody who is involved in this
attempted assassination, we will bring them to face the wrath of the law.”
Mr Zanna Ibrahim,the police
commissioner who confirmed the attack on Senator Omo-Agege when contacted on
Sunday said preliminary investigation into the incident has commenced.
NAIJ.com had reported a similar
scenario when the House of Representatives member representing
Ikene/Shagamu/Remo North Federal Constituency, Mr Oladipupo Adebutu escaped
assassination in Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun state on
Wednesday night, July 5.
According to reports, some suspected
political thugs shot at his convoy at about 7pm killing one of his supporters
in the Oke-Ide area of the town.
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