A member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Mudashiru Baraka, has been reportedly assassinated.
According to the report, he was said to have been killed by rival political thugs on Wednesday morning in Oyo town.
Baraka, a PDP grassroot mobiliser in the town, was macheted to death by his assailants at his father’s house
Efforts to get police reactions through the state Police Public Relations Officer, Adewale Osifeso, proved abortive as his mobile number was not reachable.
Meanwhile, the state PDP has alleged the All Progressives Congress (APC) of sponsoring a ‘Killer-squard’ to assassinate Baraka, a member of the PDP and grassroots mobilizer in Oyo town.
Lamenting the sustained attacks allegedly backed by some individuals in the opposition party, the ruling PDP said others who escaped from the scene sustained various degrees of injuries while appealing to the state Commissioner of Police, CP Adebowale Williams, to bring culprits of the dastardly acts to justice expeditiously.
A statement by the State Publicity Secretary of PDP, Akeem Olatunji indicated that the deceased was murdered in cold blood at his family house in Oyo town in the early hour of Wednesday and the matter has already been reported at Durbar Police Station in Oyo.
It would be recalled that the ruling PDP in the state recently raised the alarm after a series of such security alert over replacements of Governor Makinde’s billboard banner with that of the presidential and vice presidential candidates of the APC.