The Friday’s Constituency election in Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State was characterised by violence and resulted in the brutalization of a female who is believed to be the election’s returning officer.
The primary election of the All Progressive Congress under the Peter Odike faction was between Hon. Leonard Nwankwo and Engineer Noble Nwosu.
Events, however, took a new dimension when Engineer Noble Nwosu was perceived to be the anointed candidate and efforts were been on made to ensure he does not succeed in his political endeavour.
Theportcitynews learnt that the two factions mobilized their supporters to molest anyone who stood against their ambition.
In an ensuring development, a lady was beaten to a pulp as she tried to manipulate the electoral process.
Efforts to reach the two aspirants proved abortive as they were busy with their direct primary election and gave no time to our correspondent.