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Gunshots erupted near the venue of the Justice Wilfred Kpochi-led, three-member Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday morning, causing widespread panic.

Lawyers, litigants, politicians, and reporters scrambled for safety to avoid being hit by stray bullets.

However, swift intervention by fully-armed security operatives restored calm, allowing the tribunal sitting at the Edo High Court Complex on Sapele Road, Benin, to continue.

Edo APC Chairman Jarret Tenebe, condemned the incident, describing the shootings as deeply disturbing and unacceptable.

Tenebe said: “The tribunal is a sacred space, where justice is meant to be istered impartially. Any act of violence within its walls undermines the very foundation of our legal system and threatens the safety of all involved.

“Regardless of political affiliation, resorting to violence to resolve disputes is never justifiable. We must all condemn the shootings in the strongest possible .”

Edo chairman of APC also stated that violence had no place in a civilised society, while declaring that the people that were responsible for the heinous act must be brought to justice swiftly and without exception.

The former representative of Edo Central Senatorial District, Senator Monday Okpebholo, of the APC, won the September 21, 2024 governorship election in Edo, and was inaugurated on November 12 last year.

Seven of 18 political parties that participated in the election, which filed petitions at the tribunal, were Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Action Democratic Party (ADP), Accord (A), Allied Peoples Movement (APM), and Action Alliance (AA), which wanted their candidates to be declared winner of the keenly-contested poll.

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PDP and terror be like 5 & 6

It's alright

Agbero behaviour

APC

APC signature

chisomkachy:


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Make una dey shot dey go

EmperorCaesar:


APC and terror be like 5 & 6

Fixed

Normal normal

Hmm

Their problems

Stay away from TRIBUNAL

Why are APC scared?

What's the fear? What are they scared of?

If you won fair and square, let the tribunal seat!

That's why dem dey call us BENIN BOYS

If dem never kpai one governor for this contree the rest no go learn


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APC templates.

See him

APC's touts at their best because they are afraid their illegally acquired mandate is about to be taken away from them.

Agbero Party Congress

EmperorCaesar:


PDP and terror be like 5 & 6

Oloshi

Apc will finish this country. The way I love this party before but this foolish Jagaban has destroyed everything. Party that has no regards for the rule of law.

Zico5:
Apc will finish this country.

How you tey know say na APC not PDP or LP or just any neutral person?

I don't care. It has nothing to do with me

Where are they getting all these guns from?

Where are they getting all these guns from?

Noted.

AbuTwins:


How you tey know say na APC not PDP or LP or just any neutral person?

See who dey shot

helinues and his people should leave edo alone