Information reaching us from Lokoja, the Kogi State capital confirmed that some armed and masked security men who appeared in police uniforms attacked the hotel where the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, lodged in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Friday.

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Makinde is the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Kogi state Campaign Council.

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He is in Kogi in his capacity as the Chairman of that Council.
Eyewitnesses confirmed to Southwest first alert correspondent that the hooded security operatives arrived the Suitorial Hotels, Lokoja, along Stadium Road, where the Governor and some members of the PDP Campaign Councul were lodged at about 12.50 p.m., shooting sporadically.
Some of the masked security operatives scaled the fence of the Hotel and attempted to gain entrance into the main Hotel, the eyewitnesses confirmed.
A melee was set off as the security operatives attached to the Governor of Oyo State were said to have resisted the invaders.
Within a short while, some residents nearby also gathered to resist the invading gunmen.
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