Two members of the African Democratic Party (ADC), the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour party, Peter Obi and former National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie Oyegun have escaped alleged assassination attempt in Benin,Edo State, yesterday.
National Coordinator of the Obidient Movement, Yunusa Tanko told Daily Sun that chieftains of the party including Obi and Oyegun were in Benin to witness the declaration of Olumide Akpata into the ADC and were attacked by suspect assasins, who had their official vehicles riddled with bullets at the residents of Oyegun.
“The leadership of the ADC is under siege and attack in Benin, Edo State.
“At the formal declaration of Olumide Akpata into the African Democratic Congress, armed individuals followed us from the ADC Secretariat to the residence of John Odigie-Oyegun.
“They shot at the gate and destroyed several vehicles in what appears to be a failed assassination attempt on our lives,” Tanko informed.
Akpata contested the governorship of the state in the last election that produced Mr. Monday Okpebholo on the platform of the Labour Party.
