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Nigeria: LG Polls - Ilaro Boils as Youths go on Rampage

Abeokuta — Palpable anxiety enveloped residents of the ancient town of Ilaro, the headquarters of Yewa South Local Government Area after hundreds of youth members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday threw caution into the wind over alleged plot by Governor Ibikunle Amosun and leaders of the party in the state to impose Chairmanship candidate on the people of the area.

This occured barely 72 hours after some youths in Odeda Local Government Area protested and destroyed property of a Senator over the same allegation.

The angry protesters, who stormed the ACN Secretariat in the local government situated on Leslie Road, in Ilaro, around 11.30am, vented anger on anybody on sight before they started vandalizing the party Secretariat.

The protesters, who alleged that Amosun and the leaders of the party were planning to impose one of the chairmanship aspirant identified as Shafiu Odebiyi broke all the window louvers, tore the campaign posters and set ablaze the banners of Odebiyi in front of the party secretariat.

An eye-witness told Vanguard that some youths in the party protested in Ilaro secretariat of the ACN to condemn the alleged planned imposition of Odebiyi.

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