A former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole narrowly escaped death by the whiskers in Benin City, on Tuesday.
Igbere TV gathered from multiple source that two policemen in the former Edo governor’s convoy, however, lost their lives with others sustaining various degrees of injury.
The incident happened Tuesday afternoon when a trailer ran into the travelling campaign entourage of the APC, while on their way from the just concluded Edo North ward-to-ward rallies.
Igbere TV reliably gathered that the incident happened just before the popular Oluku junction, in Ovia local government area of the state. Those injured are currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
According to a security source attached to the APC campaign convoy, the trailer ran into Oshiomhole’s convoy, destroying his car and killing two just after the Benin bye-pass.
“It happened so suddenly,” the security source, who craved anonymity, said. Other APC faithfuls in the campaign convoy also collaborated the security source’s version of the story.
Following the incident, the candidate of the Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 19 Governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has called off his rally at Usen.
In a statement endorsed by the Chairman of the APC Media Campaign Council, Mr. John Mayaki, the campaign said it was suspending the scheduled event, to honour the dead.
On behalf of Pastor Ize-Iyamu and the APC, Mayaki condoled with the families of the victims, saying they were not alone in their grief.
He pledged that the campaign would do everything within its powers to ameliorate their grief.
Reaching out to the families of the policemen involved in the fatal crash, the campaign said Edo would never forget their supreme sacrifice.
The statement called on everyone to pray for the soul of dead, and against the recurrence of such tragedies.
