Police arrest suspect over attack on Obi’s convoy in Calabar.
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By Ike Uchechukwu, CALABAR The Cross River State Police Command on Wednesday arrested a 27-year-old man, Victor Edet Yellow Duke, in connection with an attack on the convoy of the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Peter Obi, in Calabar, the state capital.
The attack left the windshields of some vehicles smashed.
The incident occurred at about 2:20 p.m. at the Watt Market Roundabout as the convoy was returning from the palace of the Obong of Calabar to Metropolitan Hotel, the venue of the party’s presidential town hall meeting. According to the police, a group of suspected hoodlums, reportedly armed with machetes and sticks, emerged from the Calabar Road and Clerks Alley axis and attacked vehicles in the convoy. The number of vehicles affected had not been ascertained.
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