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Youth leader beaten to death, burnt in Edo

Hell was let lose on Saturday in Edo when a youth leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC) was beaten to death and his body set ablaze in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.

According to reports, the youth, Igie Osayande, met his death when thugs  allegedly invaded Ward 9, Units 9, 10 and 11 in Obagienevbosa Community, off Sapele Road,  in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area.

According to an APC Agent in Ward Unit 11, Mr Sunny Osagiede, trouble started when Osamede Edorodion, an ex-Local Government Chairman and PDP leader in the state arrived the area with thugs demanding to be accredited long after accreditation had closed and voting had commenced.

According to Osagiede, “Edoordion’s efforts to get accreditation were rebuffed by the Presiding Officer who told him that voting had already commenced. He was then prevailed upon by the policeman on duty at the unit to leave the area.”

Osagiede said the trouble escalated when the said Edorodion received a call later from the PDP and SDP agents in the ward that the PDP was losing. “He returned to the ward after the calls with his boys and scattered the ballot boxes and tore the ballot papers into shreds.

“In an attempt to resist them, the APC youth leader, Igie Osagiede, was attacked by the thugs and clubbed to death. His body was also set ablaze. My Mercedes Benz 190 was damaged and the Youth leader’s Mercedes Benz ML 350 4Matic was set ablaze.”

He said the body of the deceased youth leader has been deposited at a morgue.

Efforts by Newswatch Times to reach Osamede Edorodion were unsuccessful, as his phones were switched off.

The Public Relations Department of the Nigeria Police, Edo State could not be reached also, as the phones were not available.

Monday Ashibogwu

Monday Michaels Ashibogwu is Editor-In-Chief of QUICK NEWS AFRICA, one of Nigeria's leading online news service.

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