The Benue State Police Command has reacted to the alleged attack on All the Progressives Congress, APC, members at a presidential rally in Benue.
It was reported that hoodlums on Friday attacked and disrupted APC campaign rally in Gbajimba, the headquarters of Guma Local Government Area.
Addressing journalists in Makurdi, Prof Eugene Aliegba, a member of the Emmanuel Jime/Sam Ode Campaign Organisation, alleged that the hoodlums fired gun shots at the crowd before they were chased away, NAN reports.
He said the attack happened when the Director-General of the campaign team, Sen Jack Tilley-Gyado, the governorship candidate, Mr Emmanuel Jime and other members of the campaign team were holding discussions with traditional rulers at another location.
But in a reaction, the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, told NAN that both supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the APC almost had a violent encounter had the police not intervened swiftly.
He attributed the tension to what the PDP claimed to be the use of provocative songs by the rival APC at a campaign rally.
He, however denied that “gunshots were fired.
The PPRO admitted that it took the prompt intervention of the Area Police Command to disperse the crowd “which was almost becoming riotous”.
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