KLM's police escort dies after ambush by APC thugs

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A police corporal, Sunday Idoko, who was attached to the Allied Peoples Movement’s candidate, contesting for the House of Representatives’ seat in Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency, Kolawole Lawal, has died after they were ambushed by armed men suspected to be loyalists of the APC, on their way to Ilaro. 

It has earlier been reported by reputable national dailies that KLM's police escorts, electoral officers and some security personnel escorting election results from Ipokia to Ilaro, were attacked by armed men in the Eredo area of Yewa South Local Government, Ogun State.

Idoko died after he was rushed to the hospital.

It was gathered that the armed men were on a mission to either kill KLM or to snatch the result from the electoral officers.

The armed men allegedly loyal to some APC candidates in Ogun West, ambushed vehicles of the victims at Eredo village, situated between Owode and Ilaro and shot sporadically at them leading to the death of the police escort while others sustained various degrees of bullet injuries.

They were on their way to Oronna Town Hall, where they were expected to deliver the local government‘s House of Representative and senatorial election results.

One of the electoral officers who followed the team said they were coming from Ipokia Local government with the results when they were attacked.

The EO said ”they ran into an ambush when they were waylaid at Eredo village”.

The Executive Chairman, Ifekowajo LCDA, Adejumo Adewale, who was among those attacked said he was lucky to had survived the attack.

He said, “We were coming from Ipokia Local Government with the INEC officials, who were coming with the results of the election for the Senate and House of Representatives.

“We accompanied them with security men which included the Divisional police officer of Ipokia, the NSCDC officers and military men, with two vehicles, one at the front and back. When we got to Eredo, we heard gunshots, armed men were firing indiscriminately at us and we didn’t know what was happening.

“We were lucky to have escaped; when we got to Iwoye, we heard from people that were before us that they had shot at them. Bullets have hit the driver of the APM candidate, Kolawole Lawal, and the police that always escorted him, but he (Lawal) is alive.

Ipokia is the local government area of the Ogun State APM governorship candidate, Hon Adekunle Akinlade and his party had won the Senatorial and House of Representatives elections in a landslide on Saturday. 

Reports say that the result later arrived the collation Centre in Ilaro amidst heavy security.