Three persons have been reportedly injured following an attack by unknown gunmen at the campaign grounds of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.

The incident, the Nation gathered, occurred at about 7:30 pm on Tuesday night.

There are also unconfirmed reports that the gunmen who arrived in a car, threw dynamite into the premises before opening fire on hapless members and supporters of the APC.

It was learnt that the meeting APC agents for Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections was one of the activities which took place at the campaign grounds when the attackers struck.

When newsmen visited the victims in hospital, two of them were in critical condition.

The third victim, Mrs. Uduak Sunday, from Uyo, sustained a wound on her right leg.

She told newsmen that she had left the premises to purchase an item and that upon returning, she saw the attackers throwing an object (later discovered to be dynamite) into the campaign grounds before shooting indiscriminately.

Doctors did not reveal the identity of the last victim as they were reportedly battling to extract a bullet from his body.

Reacting to the attack, the APC Campaign Council in Akwa Ibom, in a statement by its Spokesperson, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, described the attack as “another desperate attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party, its thugs and militant groups that have swarmed the state since the commencement of elections in February to cause large scale violence, capable of preventing the March 9, 2019 from holding.”

Eyiboh said: “This is another in the series of cowardly attempts at intimidating and cowing our party, the APC, and its supporters in the build up to the March 9, 2019 governorship election in the state.

“The attack at the campaign office is a confirmation of earlier intelligence received by our party of the likely attempt by the PDP to truncate the March 9, 2019 governorship polls in the state.

“Intelligence at our disposal indicates that faced with imminent defeat at the polls, Gov. Emmanuel and the PDP have decided to disrupt the polls in Akwa Ibom state if they are prevented from carrying out another wholesale electoral robbery like the one they perpetrated during the presidential and National Assembly elections in collusion with the Independent National Electoral Commission.

•Excerpted from The Nation report

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