The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, have arrested eight persons in connection with last month’s attack on the convoy of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu, who returned to Lagos on Sunday, 19 June 2022, after emerging as his party’s standard-bearer in the presidential primaries that took place at the Eagle Square, Abuja, had visited the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu the same day.
However, on his way out, some armed hoodlums attacked his convoy, shattering the windows of the press corps bus with stones and machetes and injuring some journalists in the process.
Parading the suspects before journalists, the Zonal Public Relations Officer, SP Hauwa Idris-Adamu, disclosed that the suspects confessed to being members of different confraternities.
She said that the zone had launched a manhunt for the sponsor of the attack.
According to her, ”The suspects are cultists. They belong to Aiye, Eiye, Oju Akpaco and Esuru boys’ confraternities. They have mentioned the name of the sponsor of the attack, who is at large.
Investigations are still ongoing and we will get back to the press as soon as we have the principal suspect in our net”.