There was pandemonium in Benin City, Edo State, on Saturday, as some suspected political thugs disrupted the collation of results of the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the governorship poll.
The hoodlums disrupted the exercise while the results were being collated at Lushville Hotel and Suite.
Results from eight Local Government Areas of the state had already been announced when journalists covering the event were alerted to vacate the centre of the event.
Before journalists could gather their things together, the thugs swooped on the venue after overpowering police operatives at the gate.
Several journalists, including an NTA cameraman and an FRCN reporter, were manhandled and their equipment scattered.
State Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adeboye, who was present with APC officials at the venue of the primary election, failed to stop the disruption by the hoodlums
Meanwhile, a member of the House of Representatives, Dennis Idahosa (APC-Edo), emerged as the All Progressives candidate for the September 21 governorship election.
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, the Chairman of the APC Edo governorship primary election committee, said this at the end of the election on Saturday in Benin.
Uzodimma said that Idahosa scored 40,448 votes to defeat eight others aspirants in the race.
