There was tension on Saturday morning around Sari Iganmu in Apapa- Iganmu Area of Lagos State as one person was killed and several others severely injured when two factions of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) clashed.
The two warring factions had, in the last few days, been at loggerheads over the choice of the party's chairmanship candidate for the forthcoming local government election in the state.
A faction opposed to the emergence of the incumbent chairman of Apapa–Iganmu Local Council Development Area, Samuel Adesola, had on Friday protested at the party secretariat.
Tribune gathered that the problem started on Saturday morning when some party loyalists, who are supporters of the incumbent chairman, mobilised support for the chairman.
According to an eyewitness, the supporters had barely mobilised themselves for the protest when members of the opposing faction attacked them, leaving some of them critically injured.
The early morning attack was said to have led to massive mobilisation of supporters from the two camps, which aggravated the situation and left a yet- to-be-identified person dead.
Several people were also severely injured in the drama that followed the clash as hoodlums joined both parties and used all sorts of dangerous weapons against one another.
The intervention of the men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS )and other policemen prevented the clash from spreading to other parts of the community