Ebun Francis|
Opeyemi Bamidele, a former governorship aspirant in Ekiti state and ex-member of the house of representatives, was on Friday shot in Ekiti at a reception organised for Kayode Fayemi, governorship candidate of the party.
Opeyemi was shot at the All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat in Ajilosun, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. where the reception took place.
He is currently on admission at an undisclosed private hospital in Ado-Ekiti.
The mobile police officer believed to be responsible for the shooting is in police custody.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting incident remains unclear but Jide Awe, APC chairman in Ekiti, says “Fayemi was the target” of the shooting.
He narrated, “We had a gunshot in our rally by a uniformed man.”
“He was overpowered by the crowd and they took away the gun from him. It was a sporadic shooting, and I think the man has been apprehended.
“Some of us were upstairs at the party secretariat after the visit of the candidate of our party, Dr Fayemi. He was actually going out of the party office complex when we had the gunshots. He was at the veranda outside, going out to enter his waiting car. A lot of people were hit by bullets.
“Bamidele is not badly hit by the gun, and he is recuperating,” he concluded.
Also Yinka Oyebode, Fayemi’s chief press secretary, reacting to the incident told newsmen that the former minister was in the hospital with Hon Bamidele.
“Dr Fayemi is with Hon Bamidele at the hospital,” he said in response to enquiries from newsmen.
The Ekiti police command said that the matter is being investigated.