Scores of people were seriously injured (see video) after a shooting incident on Thursday afternoon as Edo State APC Governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, was leaving Benin Airport.
The incident occurred just after 2 p.m. when the candidate and several others, including the Deputy Governor of the state, Mr. Philip Shaibu, were arriving from Abuja.
Eyewitnesses reported that armed members of the Edo State Security Network, concealed among the flowers near the airport exit gate, initiated the shooting as the Senator’s aircraft landed.
The shots, audible inside the Airport Arrival Hall and along Airport Road near the Miracle Centre of the Church of God Mission, caused widespread panic. Businesses closed, and drivers abandoned their vehicles in a rush to escape.
It took the intervention of the Mobile Squad of the Nigeria Police to bring the situation under control. Meanwhile, several officers of the Edo State Security Network continued shooting while some attempted to flee in a Toyota Sienna bus.
The shooting occurred just one day after a Federal Court ordered the Inspector General of Police to restore the security detail of Philip Shaibu as Deputy Governor of Edo State, following the nullification of his impeachment.
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