Drama as Edo committee moves to recover vehicle from PDP lawyers
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Mild drama ensued on Wednesday in Benin, as members of the Assets Recovery Committee of the state government stormed the Edo State Election Petition Tribunal, to forcefully recover a vehicle.
The vehicle, a 32 seater coaster bus, conveyed the Counsels of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the Tribunal sitting at the premises of the Edo High Court.
Trouble started in the morning, before the sitting of the Tribunal when some members of the assest recovery committee attempted to recover the vehicle.
The committee alleged that the bus was one of the assets taken away by some officials of the immediate past administration of Godwin Obaseki.
It was however gathered that the committee later reached an accord with the occupants who were majorly senior lawyers, that the bus would be returned once it took them back to their destinations.
Drama however ensued when the committee members reneged after the sitting as sought to forcefully recover the bus.
The action later led to fisticuffs among the occupants of the bus and some members of the committee.
Prompt intervention of the stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to settle the matter.
The lawyers were later seen leaving the court in the bus.
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