'They beat me like a criminal' - Sowore speaks on Ekiti attack

The African Action Congress, AAC, statesmanlike candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has breached his soundlessness connected the brutal onslaught connected him successful Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

Speaking during an interrogation connected Channels Television’s Politics Today connected Friday, Sowore recounted however thugs pounced connected him and bushed him mercilessly.

According to him, the onslaught happened successful wide daylight astatine a edifice successful Ado-Ekiti wherever helium had gone to conscionable with immoderate of his supporters.

"They bushed maine similar a criminal. They came from nowhere, astir 20 of them, equipped with sticks and bottles. They said they volition termination maine if I travel to Ekiti again," Sowore said.

He said the attackers were captured connected CCTV, but alleged that the constabulary and the Department of State Services, DSS, person seized the footage to screen up the incident.

Sowore said helium sustained injuries connected his look and assemblage and had to beryllium rushed to a infirmary for treatment.

He accused the Ekiti State authorities of sponsoring the onslaught to soundlessness absorption voices successful the state, an allegation the authorities authorities has not yet responded to.

The activistic said contempt the attack, helium volition not beryllium intimidated and volition proceed to combat for justness and ideology successful Nigeria.

"I americium not afraid. They tin bushed me, they tin apprehension me, but they cannot halt maine from speaking the truth," helium added.

The onslaught connected Sowore has continued to make reactions connected societal media, with galore Nigerians condemning the incidental and calling for the apprehension of the perpetrators.

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