A Taraba State APC governorship primary electoral committee member has been shot and is in critical condition at a hospital.
Lawrence Onuchukwu, the chairman of the committee, informed journalists of the development at the Police Headquarters in Jalingo, the state capital on Thursday, May 26, 2022.
A protest had erupted after some youths in Jalingo accused the governorship primary committee chairman of presenting fake result sheets for the primary when there were none in the state.
The protesting youths also alleged that the state had difficult-to-reach terrains such as Sardauna Local Government Area which takes seven to nine hours to reach, especially the Mambilla Plateau.
Consequently, they argued that it was not possible to conduct elections in one day and get the results.
The youths call Onuchukwu to address the press on the actual situation of things and declare that the primary election failed to hold.
Trouble had initially started after the primary committee said the direct mode of the primary would be used for the exercise instead of the indirect or consensus model that had earlier been communicated to the state chapter of the party by the national headquarters.
Consequently, the Commissioner of Police in the state invited all aspirants to the Command’s headquarters in Jalingo, in a bid to avert a breach of the peace.
In reaction to the intervention of the police, many party supporters occupied the Command’s headquarters awaiting the outcome of expected talks.
