40 injured in APC Factional clash

A bloody clash between rival factions of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ogun state ensued on Thursday, with at least 40 persons sustaining various degree of injury. The fracas, occurred around 4pm at the state Secretariat of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), one of the legacy parties that fused into APC at Leme along Abiola, Abeokuta. The party’s Secretariat which has been repainted in APC colour was damaged while some cars parked in the front were not spared as members of the factions used guns, cutlasses, broken bottles as well as other dangerous weapons freely during the clash.

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