BY DAUD OLATUNJI, Abeokuta

Ogun State State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun,  yesterday apologised to newsmen in the state over the attack by some hoodlums on their colleagues.

Amosun while speaking with newsmen at his Office in Oke-Mosan, ABEOKUTA, described the brutality on the three newsmwn who were  covering the harmonisation committee meeting at the state party Secretariat on Thursday as unnecessary. It was free-for-all on Thursday in   Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital when some thugs believed to be members of the  National Union of Road Transport  Workers in the state  invaded the state Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress,  pounced on  four  journalists and  residents of Leme, Abeokuta .

The rampaging thugs who stormed  the APC Secretariat to stop a meeting of the members of the Harmonisation Committee scheduled to hold at the party secretariat, snatched cameras belonging to the correspondents of the Galaxy Television and  MITV, Kunle Ojo and Taofeek Lawal, respectively  as well as Dupe Sobukola of Paramount FM.

According to Amosun, the violence that broke out at the party Secretariat on Thursday following the attempt by a faction of the party to inaugurate harmonisation committee was as a result of  communication gap.

He said that “what happened  yesterday is something that is avoidable really. I believe there was  truly what I called communication gap. Majority of the people that were there yesterday were not at the meeting where the decision was taken.