The hoodlums, who are suspected members of the ruling All Progressives Congress , laid siege to the entrance of the court in the Isabo area of the state capital.
To keep them at bay, officers of the various security agencies used their vehicles to block the roads leading to the court.The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Governor Dapo Abiodun of the APC as the election winner with 276,298 votes. But Ladi Adebutu of the Peoples Democratic Party , who scored 262,383 votes, filed a petition to challenge the returns.
It is unclear if Mr Adebutu will be attending the proceedings as he recently claimed to have fled abroad over threats to his life. But the police said he claimed to have travelled for medical attention when invited over a petition accusing him of inducing voters with ATM credit cards loaded with N10,000 each.In the petition before the tribunal, Mr Adebutu was marked as first the first petitioner and the PDP as the second petitioner.
PREMIUM TIMES reporter witnessed one of the thugs use his cane at the court gate to flog members of the PDP out of the court area. The security officials, the police, ignored the thugs but denied our correspondent and two other journalists access to the court premises.As of the time of filing this report, the hearing of the matter had started in the courtroom, but security operatives still refused the journalists’ entrance into the court.
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