Gunmen
on Wednesday invaded the venue of the Anambra South senatorial primary of the
All Progressives Grand Alliance at the Township Stadium, Ekwulobia, in the
Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The
gunmen had scared away delegates and disrupted the primary.
It
was gathered that a certain disgruntled senatorial aspirant mobilised the
hoodlums to the venue of the primary, with the intent to disrupt the exercise.
The
Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Garba Umar, subsequently led a team of
policemen to disperse the thugs.
The
Police also released canisters of teargas and fired several gunshots to scare
away the hoodlums.
The
exercise was temporarily suspended as of the time of filing this report.
The
widow of the late Igbo leader, Bianca Ojukwu; businessman, Nicholas Ukachukwu;
and the son of a First Republic aviation minister, Ikenna Mbazuluike-Amaechi,
are major contenders in the senatorial race on the platform of APGA.
The
party had, on Tuesday, disqualified oil magnate, Ifeanyi Uba, for not obtaining
a waiver to contest the election, having dumped the Peoples Democratic Party
for APGA a few months ago.
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