Undisclosed number of persons were injured on Thursday when armed thugs fired shots at the convoy of the Edo State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Monday Okpebholo and former Deputy Governor of the state, Phillip Shaibu as they were leaving the Benin Airport on arrival from Abuja.
The incident occurred around 2 pm when the APC candidate, Shaibu and others arrived Benin aboard a chartered private jet.
Eye witness account has it that unknown gunmen in a Toyota Sienna bus positioned themselves at the exit gate to the airport and reportedly opened fire on the convoy having Okpebholo and Shaibu which led to a reprisal gunshots by armed security details attached to the APC candidate and Shaibu.
It took the intervention of the mobile squad of the Nigeria Police to bring the situation under control.
The attack comes a day after the ruling of a Federal Court in Abuja, reinstating Shaibu as the Deputy Governor and a directive that the Inspector General of Police should restore his security details following the nullification of his impeachment by the Edo State House of Assembly.
Meanwhile, a chieftain of the (PDP) in Edo Central, Chief Francis Inegbeniki, has denied sponsoring thugs who allegedly attacked the motorcade of the APC governorship candidate on Thursday in Benin City.
Inegbeniki, in a statement on Thursday, said he was not in any way involved in the attack.
He said: “ It is not true that I led or sponsored thugs who attacked the convoy of Senator Monday Okpebholo, the APC governorship candidate in Benin City. As I speak, I am in my village, and I have been in my village, I was never in Benin when or as at the time the said incident took place”.
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