Police detain Benue ACN guber candidate in Abuja

Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate at the April 26 governoship election in Benue State, Prof Torkuma Ugba has been arrested and detained at the Police Force Headquarters, in Abuja.



He was arrested at about 6pm after honouring police invitation.
Ugba was being detained for allegedly inciting disturbance in the state
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Other ACN leaders invited for questioning with Ugba were allowed to go home and "come back tomorrow (today)."
The Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), 　Olusola Amore confirmed the development to our correspondent last night.
According to Amore, Ugba is believed to have incited the disturbance which led to the attack on some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
Responding to a question, Amore said: "I am confirming that he is the only person detained. Others were asked to go and come back tomorrow (today).
"He was detained for inciting disturbance. There was robbery somewhere, he turned the story to be that the governor was the one sending people to go and attack people. As a result of that, they started attacking some PDP stalwarts. So he was the one who incited the disturbance."
Ugba contested the governorship election in Benue state on the platform of the ACN which was won by the incumbent governor of the state and candidate of the PDP, Gabriel Suswam.
But the party has hired the services of three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) and other lawyers defend its Benue South Senatorial candidate, Gen. Lawrence Onoja to dislodge Senate President David Mark from the tribunal, it was learnt yesterday.
Besides, plans are underway to engage the services of forensic experts to prove how the Senate President rigged the April 9 election.
Onoja, who made the disclosure to journalists in Abuja yesterday noted that evidence abounds for him to send Mark packing.
He announced that the lawyers who are already sorting out the documents are almost through with documents from the nine Local Government Areas.
His words: "I am very confident because my lawyers at this initial stage is chief Dubenu. He is an Ibo boy and he is leading with about three others. They are now sorting out the documents and they are almost finished in all the local government. They have almost finished and once they do that. We have been assigned three SANS by ACN and Charles Edosowen from Edo and Yusuf Alli from Kwara. They said he is one of the best.

"And of course you know we are going to arrange to bring forensic experts and forensic experts are going to go through all the boxes and they will find out that most of the ballot papers were thump printed by one person. In some cases they were using toes and in some cases they were using palm kernel to thump print. We have witnesses. This is why we are in the tribunal.

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