Coming after the Osun state governor’s convoy was attacked by hoodlums at the End SARS protest venue, the State Government has revealed that it was an assassination attempt.
Osun state’s Commissioner for Information, Funke Egbemode said in a statement released on behalf of the state government.
Although they were silent over the death of two protesters, they insisted that the attack was not from protesters.
Read the statement below:
“This was certainly beyond the #EndSARS protest. The people who launched the attack were not protesters at all.
“Protests have been going on in the State for some days now, and there had been no attack on any government official since the beginning of the protest. However, today’s attack changed the narrative.
“It was not a spontaneous attempt. The attackers had it all planned. They had guns and other weapons. In fact, it was a woman who smashed the windscreen of the vehicle of the Secretary to the State Government, Wole Oyebamiji where I was.
“It is really sad that these people infiltrated the ranks of the peaceful protesters and took advantage of the Governor’s walk with the youths to execute their sinister intentions.
“It was simply a street coup to take out the Governor, his Deputy and the Secretary to the State Government, all of whom were exposed during the protest and had to be smuggled into vehicles when the attack was launched.”
