The Ondo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has announced that it will punish Mr. Olumide Awolumate, the party’s ward chairman in the state’s Akoko North-West Local Government Area, for allegedly beating Mrs. Juliana Osadahun, the state commissioner for woman affairs and social development.
In an altercation with the commissioner that was captured on camera, the embattled chairman was seen allegedly injuring the latter’s head while distributing painkillers in Arigidi Akoko on Sunday.
The party’s state chairman, Mr. Ade Adetimehin, expressed resentment over the alleged attack on the commissioner in a Monday interview with our correspondent on the incident and said the party would meet to discuss it today (Monday).
We don’t tolerate indiscipline in our party, he declared. The indiscreet chairman would be demoted for engaging in such a conspicuous, humiliating act.
“I have directed the party chairman in the local government to bring everybody to Akure today (Monday) and we will deliberate and appropriate sanction will be meted out where necessary. But, the ward chairman would be suspended.”
Princess Oluwatosin Ajirotutu, the deputy majority leader of the Ondo State House of Assembly, also denounced the alleged assault on the commissioner. She urged the state police command to detain and charge the APC leader.
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