Several non governmental organisation have carried out campaigns against electoral violence in recent time
The assault on Mr. Akinwole Akinwale from Ife East Constituency occurred as he was about leaving the state INEC office when some thugs attacked him and tore his clothes in the process.
In telephone chat with a Punch correspondent, Mr. Akinwole Akinwale alleged that his attackers were sent by a former commissioner from Ife.
Describing his ordeal at the hands of the miscreants, he said: “I was attacked by some boys who said that the former commissioner had said I should not be allowed to take the certificate. I was told he asked them to shoot me if I insisted on collecting it.
“I was attacked while coming out of the INEC office and they tore my clothes. The policemen who were there tried to rescue me and I was ferried out of the place in the Speaker’s car.”
This is not the first time a politician will be subjected to disgrace due to his political affiliation. Back in April, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State was reportedly striped by angry supporters of the party for distributing handbills of Samuel Ortom, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during a thanksgiving service at the Akume Atongo stadium in Kastina-Ala local government area of the State."
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