APC In Ondo Suspends Chairman For Beating Commissioner
The Ondo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has suspended a ward chairman of the party in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of the state, Mr Olumide Awolumate, for allegedly beating the state Commissioner for Woman Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Juliana Osadahun.
The state APC Chairman, Mr Ade Adetimehin, who disclosed this to newsmen, condemned the alleged attack on the Commissioner.
He intimated that the party discussed the matter on Monday, and resolved that the Ward Chairman should be suspended.
The APC State Chairman said, “The party will not tolerate any indiscipline. Such an act is an act I condemn in entirety and then the party has met on it and the chairman of that ward has been suspended. How can you beat a woman? I don’t tolerate it please, let it be very loud and clear. No matter the offence of that honourable Commissioner, the party must respect a woman.
“Our party is noted for welfarism, you can check from all the local governments, there is nowhere the party was involved in this thing. So, the man has been sanctioned.”
In a statement, the Ondo State Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, said the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Asabi Abiodun, has condemned the attack and called for an investigation into the incident.
He said, “Preliminary investigation reveals that the Commissioner who was in the Akoko area to see to the distribution of the said palliatives was attacked by the assailant named Awolumate Olumide while having a meeting with some of their party members in the Area.
“The CP has ordered that a thorough investigation be carried out and the case transferred to the SCID (State Criminal Investigation Department), Akure for further probe into what led to the assault.”
Reacting also, the Deputy Majority Leader of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Oluwatosin Ajirotutu, condemned the alleged assault on the Commissioner, and called on the state police command to arrest and prosecute him.
The APC Ward Chairman was seen in a video engaging in a free-for-all fight with the Commissioner, and allegedly inflicted injuries on the her head during the distribution of the oil subsidy removal palliatives in Arigidi Akoko, on Sunday.
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