The venue of the Anambra South senatorial primary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, the Township Stadium, Ekwulobia, in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.Gunmen on Wednesday turned into a war scene as heavily armed men invaded the venue of the primary election.
The gunmen succeeded in scaring away the delegates and disrupting the primary.
The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Garba Umar, subsequently led a team of policemen to disperse the rampaging thugs. The Police released canisters of teargas and fired several gunshots to scare away the hoodlums.
The exercise was temporarily suspended.
The widow of the late Igbo leader, Bianca Ojukwu; businessman, Nicholas Ukachukwu; and the son of a First Republic aviation minister, Ikenna Mbazuluike-Amaechi, are major contenders in the senatorial race on the platform of APGA.
The party had, on Tuesday, disqualified oil magnate, Ifeanyi Uba, for not obtaining a waiver to contest the election, having dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for APGA a few months ago.
