The voting process of the All Progressives Congress governorship primary was disrupted for a while at Ward G North, Abesan in Alimosho, as thugs chased away voters.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the thugs numbering about 15 invaded the Abesan High School, venue of the exercise around 9.45, flogging voters, preventing them from being accredited.
The motive of the hoodlums as well as their sponsors could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report.
Some policemen at the venue later responded to the situation by arresting some of the hoodlums and restored normalcy.
NAN however observed that there were large turnout of party members waiting to cast their votes for either Governor Akinwunmi Ambode or Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Trending
- Professor Barth Nnaji to deliver The Bullion Lecture
- FG applauds victory of Nigerian kids at US chess contest
- Uromi killings: DSS operatives arrest two principal suspects
- Osun: NSCDC detains man, 20, for alleged defilement of minor
- Police arrest notorious kidnapper, rescue two university students in Nasarawa
- Ebonyi arrests seven commissioners, one LG chairman
- We’ll continue to touch lives of Lagos residents positively, says Sanwo-Olu
- Ponzi operators risk 10-year jail term, N20m fine – SEC