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The All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State have accused each other of being behind the violence that erupted in Ile Ife after the House of Assembly election on Saturday.

The Director of Publicity of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday that the violence in Ife and Ilase was caused by the PDP.

He said that supporters of the PDP, which won two seats in the Osun State House of Assembly, had been venting their anger on members of the APC, whose party won 24 seats out of 26 available.

But the Secretary of the PDP in the state, Mr. Bola Ajao, when contacted on the telephone, denied the allegation.

Ajao said that the PDP was not known to be troublemakers, saying the APC would attack and kill and would be the first to rush to the press to accuse the PDP.

The APC statement read, All Progressives Congress in the State of Osun has called on the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to prevail on its partys Osun chapter to stop forthwith, the killings going on in Ile Ife and Ilase in the Obokun Local Government Area of the state.

Violence and murder are crimes against humanity and society and they are not tolerated in a democratic setting.

If Osun PDP leadership and their supporters have any issue or objection to the outcome of last Saturdays election, the lawful and civilised thing to do is to seek redress from the election tribunal.

However, the PDP secretary challenged the APC to name the PDP members who perpetrated the crimes.

He said, We need to ask the APC if those who engaged in the violence wore PDP clothes. How did he know that they were supporters of the PDP?

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Osun APC, PDP trade blame over post-election violence