Ife ACN Reps-elect dedicates victory to 5 slain people

BY GBENGA OLARINOYE

OSOGBO-The IfeFederal constituency House of Representatives- elect, Hon. Rotimi Makinde of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has dedicated his victory at the poll to the five people who were murdered by some hired political thugs in a church at Ile-Ife on the eve of the rescheduled election on April 9, 2011.

Rotimi Makinde who polled 49,783 votes to defeat his closest rival, Albert Adeogun of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, with 14,181 votes, told Vanguard yesterday after INEC declared him winner, lamented his greatest regret was the five lives wasted by the hoodlums.

He blamed the loss of lives of the five people, including a pastor of a church to the sudden postponement of the April 2, 2011 National Assembly election.

According to him, the hired thugs allegedly working for a prominent politician in the state,  took the lives of the innocent citizens when they realised that he (Mankinde)  was going to win the election based on the results of the votes counted before the postponement.