Several Persons sustained various degree of injuries on Saturday following gunshots as a result of the free for all clash between the supporters of the People’s Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress, at the gate of the oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare the second.
The incident started when a group on a solidarity March for captain Hosa Okunbor to the palace of the Oba, met another group loyal to the PDP and the incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki who incidentally was at the palace to inform the Benin monarch of his planned flag-off campaign at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin city.
As expected Both groups began chatting anti party’s songs and confronting each other It took the intervention of the men of the Nigeria police to bring the tense atmosphere under control.
Few minutes after the Governor and his entourage left the palace several gunshots were fired by unknown persons at the palace gate forcing news crew including AIT and TVC correspondents to scamper for safety.
Editor :Tunde Orebiyi
