{"id":14963,"date":"2019-02-02T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14963"},"modified":"2019-02-02T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:30:41","slug":"hoodlums-disrupt-apc-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14963","title":{"rendered":"Hoodlums disrupt APC rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rally of All Progressives Congress (APC) held in Gbajimba, the home base of Governor Samuel Ortom is reported to have been disrupted by hoodlums who fired gun shots to disperse the crowd.
\nAPC alleged on Friday in Makurdi that its rally at Gbajimba, the headquarters of Guma Local Government Area, was one of the governorship campaigns across the 23 Local Government Areas of the state to shore up support for its candidates in the 2019 polls.
\nAddressing journalists in Makurdi, Prof Eugene Aliegba, a member of the Emmanuel Jime\/Sam Ode Campaign Organisation, alleged that the hoodlums fired gun shots at the crowd before they were chased away.
\nHe said the attack happened when the Director-General of the campaign team, Sen Jack Tilley-Gyado, the governorship candidate, Mr Emmanuel Jime and other members of the campaign team were holding discussions with traditional rulers at another location.
\n\u201d It is our tradition that wherever we went, we address the traditional rulers and other interest groups. So the rally was already started when we got the information that thugs stormed the venue, shot and dispersed the crowd.
\n\u201d We are not sure of casualty details yet, we are awaiting details,\u201d he said.
\nAs the briefing progressed, a chieftain of the party in the state, Mr Mike Lordye, who claimed to have survived the attack, interjected by alleging that the hoodlums who attacked the crowd, started by throwing stones before resorting to live bullets.
\nHe said he had information that his warehouse and petrol service station were also set on fire and appealed to the police to disclose the actual casualty level. This claim could not be verified.
\nAliegba said the attack was worrisome because it happened at Gov. Samuel Ortom\u2019s home town.
\n\u201d Gbajimba is not just another local government area, it is the home town of the sitting governor of the state.
\nAnother chieftain of the party, Reps Dickson Tarkighir, representing Makurdi\/Guma Federal Constituency, however, assured that \u201d nothing will stop us from campaigning in Gbajimba. Just be calm.\u201d
\nHe wondered why the parties had so quickly abandoned the peace pact, which they signed to guarantee violence free polls.
\nTarkighir called on the Inspector- General of Police (I-G) to promptly intervene to ensure peaceful electioneering and elections in the state.
\nHe claimed that some of the victims of the campaign-rally attack, brought to the Benue State Teaching Hospital (BSUTH), were turned back.
\nIn a reaction to the claims by the APC, the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, said both supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)and APC almost had a violent encounter had the police not intervened swiftly.
\nHe attributed the tension to what the PDP claimed to be the use of provocative songs by the rival APC at a campaign rally.
\nHe denied that \u201cgunshots were fired.
\nThe PPRO admitted that it took the prompt intervention of the Area Police Command to disperse the crowd \u201d which was almost becoming riotous\u201d.
\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Benue politics is characterised by songs and drumming, usually depicting the shortcomings of those opposed to their party ideologies.
\nBy NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rally of All Progressives Congress (APC) held in Gbajimba, the home base of Governor Samuel Ortom is reported to have been disrupted by hoodlums who fired gun shots to disperse the crowd. APC alleged on Friday in Makurdi that its rally at Gbajimba, the headquarters of Guma Local Government Area, was one of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}