The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 84 suspected party thugs who attempted to disrupt primary elections conducted by the state charter of All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held last Saturday.
According to the command, the hoodlums who were armed with dangerous weapons were arrested in different parts of the metropolis.
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, at a press conference yesterday at the Command Headquarters, Ikeja, said that a good number of the thugs were allegedly 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 which were contained as soon as it began.
“In all, the Command arrested a total of 84 thugs from various parts of the State but for logistic reasons only 68 of them will be paraded this morning.”
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 that however, 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.
He said others are Bashiru Tosin; Ahmed Ibrahim; Kaseem Olatunji; Abdullahi Kudus; and Ismail Oluwayin.
He said items recovered from the hoodlums were cutlasses; a large number of weeds suspected to be Indian-Hemps, and alcoholic drinks mixed with all kind of drugs popularly known as skuchies
