Governor of Edo State, Mr. Adams Oshiomole, was
on Tuesday smuggled out of the venue of the Bayelsa
State governorship primary of the All Progressives
Congress.
This happened as the much awaited primary of the
party ended in a deadlock.
Oshiomole, Chairman, Electoral Committee of the
APC primary, was trapped in the Samson Siasia
Sports Complex Complex, Yenagoa, venue of the
election when youths loyal to former Governor
Timipre Sylva stormed the area around 3.30pm.
The loyalists had stormed the area after Sylva had
finished complaining to one of the national officers
that the election was designed to scheme him out.
He had said the primary was skewed in favour of a
particular aspirant by the national leadership of the
party.
Sylva, who looked distraught, complained seriously
that he would not accept the treatment being meted
out to him by the national leadership.
No sooner had he finished expressing his
displeasure than scores of his loyalists took over the
area, chanting war songs.
The youth threw caution to the wind and started
attacking Oshiomhole and the national leadership of
the party.
At that point, the arena had been thrown into
pandemonium as aspirants, delegates, journalists
and other persons scampered for safety.
Oshiomhole, who was held hostage till about 5pm,
could only escape from the venue with the help of
operatives of the Department of State Security and
soldiers.
The loyalists of Sylva, who announced to the crowds
that accreditation was continuing by 5pm, wanted the
Edo Governor to be there with them.
But Oshiomhole was said to have pulled a
masterstroke when he told the members of the state
Executive Committee of the party, who were bent on
continuing the accreditation of delegates, that he was
hungry and needed to go and eat.
“That was how Governor Adams Oshiomhole was
able to escape from the venue,” one of the security
operatives, who spoke on the condition of anonymity,
said.
As of 5pm, the Chairman of the party in the state,
Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, announced that
accreditation of delegate would continue.
As of that time, some aspirants, including a major
contender, Chief Timi Alaibe, had escaped from the
venue for fear of being attacked.
www.punchng.com/news/bayelsa-apc-primary-ends-in-deadlock-oshiomhole-held-hostage/

sauce

minister of attack escaped being attacked? thats not fair oooooooooooooooo
ha ha ha
THE ZOO MUST FALL
my goodness me

We don't need this violent party in South south.

H

Wetin consign am der? Busybody

confused party

The APC should be wary of cocaine sniffing silva. He should never have been allowed into the fray.

EFCC please where is that silva's file sef?

[size=20pt]Sylva has not won anything.... the chairman of the primary election (Adam Oshiomole) ran for his dear life after Sylva thugs foment troubles.. So please calm down and wait for APC National Exco statements on this.... It's was a kangaroo election supervised by Sylva boys that the result was announced and not the one headed by Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomole... Next week Sylva will know the meaning of party supremacy...Sylva should not hurriedly forget his many files with EFCC...[/size]