There was chaos at the Taraba State Primary election on Wednesday as delegates of the People’s Democratic Party PDP howled stones at the convoy of the state Governor, Darius Ishaku and his Deputy Haruna Manu.
The incident happened at the Catholic Pastoral Centre Jalingo.
Daily Post reports that the Deputy Governor drove to the voting arena where the election was scheduled to take place but the delegates attacked his convoy with stones in defiance.
The state governor’s convoy arrived shortly afterwards but he was not permitted to halt and alight because the delegates began stoning the convoy.
The irate mob tested that they did not want to speak with the governor or the party’s leadership.
Some delegates who spoke to newsmen expressed dissatisfaction with the imposition of the state PDP party chairman, Kefas Agbu as an aspirant despite the fact that he was never a part of the process until just 48 hours before the primaries.
The action has sparked widespread condemnation and agitation from stakeholders who insist that the elder statesman should not never have imposed a candidate on the party.
This they say is more so due to the fact that the candidate is the incumbent Chairman and comes from the same zone as the current governor, who is about to finish his second term in office
The development delayed the commencement of the primary election.
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