The police say they visited the
hotel where Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo state, lodged in Lokoja, Kogi state
capital, after receiving information that some “hoodlums” were there.
Makinde, who is the chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council for the governorship
election, is currently in Lokoja.
Taiwo Adisa, his spokesman, had
raised the alarm that the governor and members of his campaign were attacked at
Suitorial Hotel in the state capital on Friday.
In a statement, Adisa said
Makinde and his team were inside the hotel when masked security operatives
attempted forcing their way in around 12 mid-day.
He quoted a witness as saying the
masked security men opened fire.
But addressing reporters at the
headquarters of the police command in Lokoja, Hakeem Busari, commissioner of
police in the state, said his men went to the hotel after a tip off.
He said the policemen withdrew
after they discovered that the information was untrue.
“Security agencies got the
information that some hoodlums were hiding in a hotel. They went there to check
the information and by the time they got there, the information was not true so
they had to withdraw,” he said.
“Nobody attacked anybody, nobody
assaulted anybody. I’m not aware of any gunshots there. What we have discovered
now is that any little thing, people will raise the alarm.”
Some staff of the hotel had
earlier revealed that there was no shooting or any form of violence at the
hotel.
There have been incidents of
violence in the election which is a two-horse race between Yahaya Bello, the
incumbent governor who is of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and Musa
Wada, his PDP counterpart.
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