Reports reaching KemiFilaniNews says many festival attendees were left injured as the resettlement day, an annual celebration for Tarok ethnic group of Plateau State turned violent on Saturday.
It was gathered that the incident happened in the late hours of Saturday (March 5, 2022) following a violent clash between between supporters of the All Progressive Congress ,APC, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Daily Trust reported that an eyewitness, Lanchang Timpil, said the clash broke out when the immediate past chairman of Langtang North, Ubandoma Laven, who is a member of the PDP, arrived at the venue of the occasion and was invited by the Master of Ceremony to the high table.
It was said that the current chairman, Vincent Bulus Venman, an APC member, was not happy with the invitation.
Timpil said the chairman walked up to the immediate past chairman, and “this created tension.”
“A fight ensured between the youths and many people were injured,” he added.
Efforts to reach Laven proved abortive as he did not pick up calls to his line or reply to a text message sent to him as of the time of filing this report.
However, Venman, when contacted, said he could not speak on the phone about the incident, Daily Trust reports.