A street rally in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital, led by Senator Babafemi Ojudu to drum up support for the re-election of Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State turned bloody on Sunday as a contingent of the Nigeria anti-riot police led by their commander in the state, Selenkere Michael, an indigene of Bayelsa State, pounced on the APC members, tear-gassing and shooting at them.
According to reports, the carnival-like street rally went on peacefully until the police unleashed a volley of teargas canisters and later used live bullets that killed a party member.
A few minutes after the attack, the state governor, Kayode Fayemi arrived the scene of the attack to ascertain what happened, the rampaging policemen did not spare him, he was tear-gassed while some members of his security detail and the commissioner for integration in Ekiti State, Niyi Afuye, were arrested and taken away from the scene.
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