***Urges party members to remain calm
National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has appealed to members of the party in Edo state to remain calm following the mayhem unleashed on the people of the state by armed thugs loyal to the state government.
Oshiomhole made the appeal while addressing party members who escorted him to his house. The party chair and other members of the NWC of the party was in Benin to receive over thirty thousand leaders of the PDP led by Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu into the APC.
But political thugs at the early hours of Thursday took over the Benin Airport shooting sporadically. Burn-fires were observed at strategic places in Benin City, while roads leading to the residence of the party chairman were blocked heavy-duty vehicles.
It took the party Chair and other members of the NWC over one hour to get to his residence after soldiers came to disperse the armed…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
