Sowore, police clash over account of attack in Ekiti

By Rotimi Ojomoyela & Ayobami Okerinde
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has disputed the Ekiti State Police Command’s account of an incident in which he sustained injuries at a restaurant in Ado-Ekiti, insisting that he and his associates were attacked by suspected political thugs.
The police had dismissed reports that Sowore was kidnapped by armed men in the state capital, describing the incident as an altercation with some individuals at a restaurant around the Dalimore area of the state.
However, Sowore, in a post on X on Friday, accused the police of downplaying the incident, rejecting the description of the attack as an altercatio...