The exercise was going on smoothly in Ilorin, until some loyalists of Bolaji Abdullahi and Razak Atunwa, allegedly clashed over an alleged attempt to manipulate the primary.

Some supporters of Abdullahi alleged that most of the ballot papers had Atunwa’s name on them which was true.

Atunwa is believed to have the backing of Saraki and Abdulafatai Ahmed, governor of the state.

Accreditation had already taken place, after which ballot papers were handed to delegates with "Razak Atunwa" name already ticked on them. Delegates from two Local Government then went ahead to drop the ballot papers in the box like that. The third Local Government had started to vote, when a few people from that LGA raised certain observations about the process that how can they tick Atunwa's name on all the papers given to them and expect them to keep quiet.

“The organisers of the primaries then suggested that the LGA in question should either conclude voting while the observations were addressed, or allow another LGA to vote pending the resolution of the observations that were raised.

“It was at this point that point that one of the delegates shouted at atunwa that "boda ole niyin" which means brother you're a thief and the delegate used his leg to kick the ballot box away. Then other delegates started shouting it's better to give  the kwara north people since it's their turn and chants of bahago, bahago, bahago was heard.