Pandemonium broke out on Friday, in Benin City, Edo State
capital, as the Edo State chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN), Mr Thomas Okosun, escaped death by the whiskers after angry
youths unleashed terror on him and other officials at the party’s
secretariat.
The ACN chairman and some other party officials were said to have received some beatings before making their ways out of the secretariat, even as the youth allegedly vandalised about three vehicles including the Prado jeep belonging to the chairman of the party.
The youth were said to have acted after they discovered that the names of their councillorship candidates had been substituted for those of another faction ahead of the April 20 local government elections in the state.
The youth were also said to have attacked the secretariat to protest an alleged imposition of candidates that greeted last Saturday’s conduct of primaries to elect chairmanship and councillorship candidates for the ACN in the state.
A source said that the youth became infuriated when they learnt that the leadership of the ACN in the state gave the order that the councillorship positions in Egor and Oredo councils be shared among the two major factions after some candidates had emerged from the primaries conducted last Saturday.
At about 3:00 p.m, another faction stormed the party’s secretariat, leading to an open fight between the two groups, just as they descended on the party leaders on sight.
There was traffic logjam on the Airport Road where the ACN secretariat is located as many people abandoned their vehicles to take cover.
It took the intervention of mobile policemen before the youth could disperse.
Efforts made to get the reaction of the chairman proved abortive as he did not pick his phone.
NigerianTribune
The ACN chairman and some other party officials were said to have received some beatings before making their ways out of the secretariat, even as the youth allegedly vandalised about three vehicles including the Prado jeep belonging to the chairman of the party.
The youth were said to have acted after they discovered that the names of their councillorship candidates had been substituted for those of another faction ahead of the April 20 local government elections in the state.
The youth were also said to have attacked the secretariat to protest an alleged imposition of candidates that greeted last Saturday’s conduct of primaries to elect chairmanship and councillorship candidates for the ACN in the state.
A source said that the youth became infuriated when they learnt that the leadership of the ACN in the state gave the order that the councillorship positions in Egor and Oredo councils be shared among the two major factions after some candidates had emerged from the primaries conducted last Saturday.
At about 3:00 p.m, another faction stormed the party’s secretariat, leading to an open fight between the two groups, just as they descended on the party leaders on sight.
There was traffic logjam on the Airport Road where the ACN secretariat is located as many people abandoned their vehicles to take cover.
It took the intervention of mobile policemen before the youth could disperse.
Efforts made to get the reaction of the chairman proved abortive as he did not pick his phone.
NigerianTribune
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