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Nigeria: Police Avert Bloody Clash
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Leadership (Abuja)
9 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008
What would have resulted to a bloody political clash between members of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) was on Wednesday averted by the police in Ibadan.
It was learnt that the fierce-looking policemen who came along with a personnel armour carrier took over the office and went straight into the premises where they discovered that the members of the faction had concealed over 24 bottles of substance suspected to be acid in the premises.
Investigation revealed that the other faction led by the state secretary of the party, Mr. Sola Osotoye, had alerted the police of what he called "illegal meeting" at the former party secretariat by the five dissident lawmakers which had long been abandoned.
It would be recalled that five lawmakers representing the party in the state House of Assembly were alleged to be precipitating the crisis to pave the way for them to decamp to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) .
Informed sources in the party told
Sources revealed that if not for the quick intervention of the security operatives ,it would have resulted into a bloody confrontation between the two factions as they were said to have been armed to the teeth for the encounter.
Acting on the information, policemen deployed to the venue of the meeting were said to have cordoned the premises and after conducting a thorough search, discovered the substance suspected to be acid in bottles.
The substance was then taken away by some officers with a view to conducting a test so as to ascertain the level of acidity and whether the substance was injurious to the body.
Mr. Osotoye in an interview said that the state executive had to call in the police to stop the divisive tendencies of the five lawmakers opposed to the executive members.
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He alleged that " the lawmakers opposed to our executive had planned to eliminate us by pouring acid on us anywhere they sight us and we have to act promptly."
Commenting, the police public relations officer, ASP Bisi Okuwobi, said that the command acted on an intelligence report that there was likely to be a break down of law and order at the ANPP secretariat.
learnt that policemen from the state command swung into action and dispatched a faction of the party wanting to hold a meeting at the parallel ANPP office situated at Agbarigo area of the metropolis .LEADERSHIP that the dissident lawmakers were trying to create confusion in the party with a view to protecting their position in the Assembly in the event they decamp to the rival PDP.
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