Some armed masked security men in police uniform attacked Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party campaign council in Kogi State.
An eyewitnesses was gathered to have narrated that the masked gunmen arrived the Suitial Hotels, Lokoja, located along Stadium Road, Lokoja, where the Governor and some members of the PDP Campaign Council are lodged at about 12:50pm on Friday, shooting sporadically and attempting to break into the hotel rooms.
Some of the attackers were said to have jumped the fence of the hotel and attempted to enter the rooms. However, security details attached to the Governor of Oyo State were said to have urgently intervened and resisted the attackers, forcing them to flee.