Former presidential candidate and a leader of Afenifere, Chief Olu Falae, Wednesday escaped death by whisker when a gun shot was fired at his car by mobile police men along Akure-Ilesha Express way.
Falae it was gathered was on his way to Ile-Ife to join other members of the pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere on a courtesy visit to Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi when the incident happened.
Falae A visibly disturbed former Secretary to the Federal Government, SFG, who narrated his ordeal to journalists in Ile-Ife before the Afenifere’s meeting with Oba Ogunwusi said he narrowly escaped death in the hands of the gunmen.
He explained that his car was shot at Ile-Oluji junction while traveling to Ife for Afenifere’s visit to Ooni og Ife.
NigerianEye recalls that Falae was recently kidnapped in his Akure home for several days before he was rescued from the hands of the fulani herdsmen who kidnapped him by the security agents.
He expressed shock over the shooting of his car by the police, asking “when was I kidnapped that they want to kill me now?. His words: “I was coming from Akure approaching Ilesa. I saw some vehicles ahead of me.
There was a bullion van in front. The vehicles ahead of us were overtaking the bullion van and we too followed. “I nearly passed them when I heard a shot and I heard a bang on my car. We stopped and we saw that they have fired at our car. “They didn’t stop.
We stopped at Erin-Ijesa and complained to the police at the check-point that we were fired at by some police following a bullion van at Ile-Oluji juction. Chief Falae who expressed fear over continuous attack on him said “I don’t know why I was kidnapped recently, why I was arrested in 1997 and locked up for two years and now shot.”
When contacted, the Osun state command of the Police image maker, Mrs Folashade Odoro said the command was yet to receive official report on the issue.
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