By Violence has marred the Chairmanship primary election of the All Progressives Congress for the forthcoming Local Government elections after the announcement of anointed candidates earlier approved by leadership of the party.
It will be recalled that some aspirants were earlier approved by the party leadership after it had its stakeholders meeting at its Lagos Secretariat. The aspirants who were approved were said to be former chairmen in the last dispensation and were being compensated to complete their tenure. This however did not go down well with some supporters.
BlackBox Nigeria gathered that party delegates and supporters of aspirants who were not so favoured disrupted Chairman of the Party Electoral Committee, Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi from announcing the names of consensus candidates
Broken bottles, plastic chairs, woods, stones, bottle water and sachet water were some of the weapons used to chase VIP delegates and other supporters out of the Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere, where the primaries were being held.
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