Counsels to Governor Rauf Aregbesola and Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday engaged in a fresh physical combat over an attempt to use video camera to record the inspection of election materials.

Our correspondent gathered that the inspection had hardly started when a camera man hired by Aregbesolas legal team started recording the proceedings but one of the counsels representing the PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Kehinde Adesiyan objected the move.

Adesiyan was said to to have argued that video recording of the proceedings was not part of the order given by Justice I. M Bako-led Election Petitions Tribunal.

However, it was gathered that Aregbesolas counsel, Mr. Dawood Akinloye, insisted that they had the liberty to record the inspection since it was not in any way tampering with it except the PDP had something to hide.

Akinloye at this point collected the camera from the camera man and started recording as PDP lawyers were inspecting the election material.

Hot argument ensued and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission stepped in to douse the tension.

An official of INEC reportedlysaid that the commission would record the inspection and give copies of the recordings to the two parties but Akinloye raised an objection to this, saying he could not rely on the INEC for their recording since his client had brought a camera for the same purpose.

Akinloyes refusal to stop recording the inspection was said to have resulted into a fight between him and Adesiyan.

Akinloye later told journalists in an interview that Adesiyanattacked him and held his neck while he was filming the happenings at the INEC office.

He said, We brought a camera man to record the inspection but they said no. They threatened to arrest him. I took the camera from the man and started recording but resisted me.

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