The police fired tear gas on Tuesday while the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, attended an event in Kogi State.
Both men had attended a stakeholders’ meeting to witness the signing of a peace accord by political parties and their candidates ahead of the November 12 governorship election in the state. The meeting which was organised by the electoral body also had in attendance some senior police officers and INEC National Commissioners among other political stakeholders in Kogi.
The event had been going smoothly until commotion occurred when the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party , Natasha Akpoti, arrived at the venue.gathered that suspected thugs attacked the SDP candidate when she was about entering the hall where the event was holding. In the process, a fight broke out while some policemen at the venue dispersed the hoodlums with teargas which affected everyone in the hall, including the IGP and the INEC boss, as well as other dignitaries present.
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