The PDP governorship primary election, which started on Tuesday, ended abruptly in the early hours of Wednesday when gunmen invaded the venue.
We that voting had ended and the sorting of votes was ongoing when unknown gunmen arrived at the venue at about 1:45 a.m. and shot at different directions.
Report have it that votes in eight out of the 10 ballot boxes were already counted and sorted out before the disruption.
Aspirants, delegates and others scampered to safety. Adamawa State governor and chairman of the Electoral Committee Ahmadu Fintiri reportedly escaped bullets of gunshots by the gunmen.
The state governor opined that the incident portends “grave danger to the state’s gubernatorial elections scheduled for November 16″ and directed security agencies to get to the roots of the matter immediately.”
He asked PDP to emulate the conduct of the APC which held its primary elections without the occurrence of violence.
