Ondo State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Adebunmi Osadahun, has been attacked over the distribution of Federal Government palliatives in Akoko Northwest Local Government.
Osadahun was reportedly attacked by a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Olumide Awolumate, for removing his name from the beneficiaries of the palliatives in Arigidi.
A viral video showed how the party leader popularly called Cuba engaged the commissioner in a fisticuff.
In an attempt by the commissioner to charge at Cuba, he used a chair to hit her head and also attempted to raise a table before he was stopped.
In the video, the head of the commissioner was seen swollen.
Sources said Awolumate, the APC Ward 1 chairman, was sad that his name was removed from the beneficiaries of the palliatives of the Federal Government.
Another source, who witnessed the fracas, said the commissioner reported the assault to the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), but he told her he was not around.
The source said policemen on duty did nothing to prevent the fracas.
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Ondo State Government last week launched the distribution of palliatives to vulnerable households and commissioners were asked to lead in the distribution in their local governments.
Commissioner for Information, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, said 1,200 bags of rice would be distributed to 6,000 households in the local government.
She said: “There will be five people to a bag of rice and here, we have trucks coming in to take the palliatives to towns in Akoko South East comprising Ipesi, Sosan, Ifira, Epinmi, Isua, among others. We have 1,200 bags of rice for Akoko South East and we are targeting 6,000 households in the local government.
We have selected the most vulnerable households, but based on our experience, while we are drawing the list, we have seen that we will go very far. We have Muslim community, Christian Association, Market women, traders association, tailoring association and Iyalojas among others.
“We have been very diligent in making this selection. We will learn a lot of lessons from the distribution. Whatever lessons we learn, we are going to share it with the main committee and we hope we don’t learn a bad lesson even if we learn a bad lesson, we hope to gain from it because this is the first tranche and lesson learnt, we will improve upon.”