The executive chairman of Afijio Local Government area of the state, Hon. Samuel Aderemi was kidnapped by rampaging thugs, on Wednesday.
The thugs stormed the council in an attempt to prevent the sacked Local government chairmen and councillors under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) from resuming.
Aderemi, after beaten to stupor by the hoodlums, was whisked away in a bus to an unknown destination.
He was however later rescued after two hours by security agents.
The victim, according to the sacked ALGON Chairman, Hon. Abass Aleshinloye is recuperating in an undisclosed hospital.
Similar scenarios played out in Ibadan North, Ibadan North East Local Governments and Omi Apata Local Council Council Development Authority ( LCDA) where thugs had a field day, causing mayhem.
Despite the presence of security agents comprising the police and Civil Defense men, injuries were inflicted on party members of the APC and Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), who engaged in free- for- all.
Trouble started on Monday when the sacked chairmen and councillors make good their threat to resume within the 68 local government and LCDA Secretariats
Governor Seyi Makinde, shortly after his inauguration last May, dissolved the chairmen and asked them to hand over to the most senior career officer in their respective councils, after about eight months of legal battle with the state government.
The council chairmen were elected on May 12, 2018 in local government election conducted by former Governor Abiola Ajimobi.
Information gathered from all the 33 local government areas and 35 Local Council Development Areas in the state showed that majority of the chairmen had resumed into their offices except a few.
However, there were pockets of violence in Ibadan South East and Ibadan North East councils where some hoodlums allegedly led by a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW) in the state, Alhaji Lamidi Mukaila a.k.a. Auxiliary, reportedly hijacked the situation.
The leadership of the National Union of Local Government Employees ( NULGE) on Monday asked its members to stay at home , locking all the gates and offices to the council secretariats for security of lives of members.
In Oluyole Local Government Area, Prince Ayodeji Abass-Aleshiloye who is the chairman of ALGON, as well as the council chairman , resumed office and held a prayer session with some of his followers.
Abass-Aleshiloye , the Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON), had insisted that he and his members were ready to cooperate with Makinde to move the state forward at the grassroots level.
