KOGI POLL: MASKED SECURITY MEN ALLEGEDLY ATTACKS GOVERNOR MAKINDE’S HOTEL IN LOKOJA

 The Special Assistant to the Governor said, his boss was in Kogi State in his capacity as Chairman Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council Governorship election and lodged in the hotel, but at about 12.50pm hooded security operatives scaled the fence of the Hotel and attempted to gain entrance into the main Hotel.

 “Information reaching us from Lokoja, the Kogi State Capital confirmed that some armed and masked security men who appeared in police uniforms, on Friday, attacked the hotel where the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde lodged in Lokoja, Kogi State Capital’, Alao stated.

Penpushing further reports that an eyewitness confirmed that the hooded security operatives arrived the Suitorial Hotels, Lokoja, along Stadium Road, where the Governor and some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council were lodged at about 12.50 p.m shooting sporadically.

The Special Assistant to the Governor said, in view of the ugly development a number of security operatives attached to the Governor and some residents of nearby buildings, however, resisted the security operatives, thereby causing a melee.

‘Information confirmed that the hooded Policemen came in about 100 vehicles and were said to have been led by the officer-in-charge of one of the Arms of the Nigerian Police Force in Kogi State. They came fully armed and hooded’.

‘Some of them scaled the fence of the Hotel and made to enter the Hotel proper. But pandemonium ensued, as there was commotion between security operatives attached to the Governor and the invaders. However, some residents in the neighbourhood of the Hotel soon mobilised and joined the Governor’s security to resist the invaders”, he added