Two of the police personnel attached to the campaign team of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, on Tuesday lost their lives in a road accident.
The police officers, whose names could not be ascertained as at press time, lost their lives when a trailer ran into the travelling campaign entourage before Oluku junction in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State on their way to Usen community for a campaign, according to a statement by John Mayaki, chairman, Edo State APC Media Campaign Council.
Mayaki said the incident, however, led to the suspension of the campaign rally in the community to honour the dead police officers.
On behalf of Pastor Ize-Iyamu and the APC, Mayaki condoled with the families of the victims, saying they were not alone in their grief.
He pledged that the campaign council would do everything within its powers to ameliorate their grief.
The statement added that the APC campaign council and its candidate would reach out to the families of the policemen involved in the fatal crash.
Mayaki called on everyone to pray for the souls of the dead and against a recurrence of such tragedies.
