#EdoDecides: APC, PDP supporters clash in Irua

Violence broke out as voting progressed on Wednesday at Ikekato Ward 4, Unit 1, at Irua, Esan Central, as supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress clashed during voting.

The attackers were reportedly of the PDP, and the area is dominated by the party’s supporters.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the violence also spread to units 1, 5, 6, 8 and 9 of the same Ward.

It was also learnt that security officials intervened to calm the situation, but the threats were still there as the thugs returnws as soon as the police officers were gone.

The Chairman of the APC in the state, Anslem Ojezua, is from the Ward where the violence has been recorded.

He told PREMIUM TIMES on the phone that although the police had intervened, the threats were still very imminent.

He said the thugs who he described as PDP’s, had been unleashing violence on voters when they realized that the party they support was losing at the unit.

“They came and began to attack individuals, breaking their heads and disrupting the process,” Mr. Ojezua said.

“The police are not doing enough, they need to do more. Just telling people that they should not fight is not enough, they need to arrest some of them.

“As I speak to you, there is movement, when the security agencies said there should be no movement.

“These people are going about freely and causing problems. The process is being threatened if the security agencies don’t do something about right now.”