Police Arrest 84 for Attempting to Disrupt Party Primaries

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested over 84 suspected hoodlums who attempted to disrupt the recently concluded primary elections conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

The hoodlums who were arrested from different parts of the metropolis, were said to have been wielding various dangerous weapons, with which they attempted to cause mayhem at the respective elections wards.

The state Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, who confirmed the arrest said a good number of the thugs were arrested from Ajegunle, Ijora Badia, Oyingbo, Oshodi, Ikorodu and Epe areas.

He said: "I want to use this opportunity to thank Lagosians for conducting themselves peacefully during and after the recently concluded APC primaries, which by all security indices was hugely successful.

"However, there were pockets of skirmishes in some parts of the state owing to the activities of thugs, who were however contained as soon as it began. In all, the command arrested a total of 84 thugs from various parts of the state."

Edgal who said that all those arrested would soon be charged to court added that in the same vein, armed hoodlums last Friday went about Ijora-Badia town damaging cars and looting shops along Gaskya Street/Ijora Oloye.

He said operatives of the command led by CSP Indyar Apev, rose to the occasion and arrested 16 of them at the scene.

He gave the names of the 16 arrested suspects as Adisa Mohammed, Idowu Alibi, Michael Ogede, Akeem Rilwan, Ayinde Alimi, Muyiwa Usman, Muftau Akeem, Kaseem Ajiboye, Qudus Tajudeen; Damire Adeoye and

Oluwasegun Fauwat, Bashiru Tosin, Ahmed Ibrahim, Kaseem Olatunji, Abdullahi Kudus and Ismail Oluwayin.

He said items recovered from the hoodlums includes cutlasses, large quantity of weeds suspected to be Indian-Hemps and alcoholic drinks popularly known as schuchies.