How Obi, Oyegun escaped assassination
•Gunmen storm ADC secretariat, Odigie-Oyegun’s residence •We got intelligence of attack — Odigie-Oyegun •APC, Edo govt deny complicity; ADC, Atiku, Akpata, Owie react TENSION gripped Benin City, Edo State, yesterday, as 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi; former Governor of Edo State, John Odigie-Oyegun and other leaders of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, escaped attacks from gunmen. Few minutes after leaders of the ADC, including Peter Obi received former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and the LP Edo 2024 governorship candidate, Olumide Akpata into the party, gunmen attacked the facility at Ogbelaka Street, Off Sokponba Road, Benin City, and the residence of the party’s National Leader, Odigie-Oyegun. Obi, narrating his ordeal, declared: “It is time to speak up. It is time those in government act. They are not going to be there forever. What they allowed to happen in the country today will take its rev...