Justice Nayai Aganaba of the Bayelsa High Court was stoned by dozens of hoodlums, who stormed his court to stop proceedings in a political case.
Justice Aganaba was on Thursday hearing in his court a case on the disputed ward, local government and State congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
The claimant, Alex Blackson and his brother, Osom Blackson, were injured during the stampede in the court room.
While the judge was later whisked to safety by his police orderly, the lawyers were chased out.
Those who came with the claimant were reportedly brutalised.
The hoodlums were said to have been provoked over the insistence of Justice Aganaba to hear the suit filed by Alex Blackson, seeking the order to set aside the disputed congresses of the APC held last year.
There was also sporadic shooting at the State Secretariat of the APC following the attempts by policemen to arrest some chieftains of the party over their alleged involvement in the court invasion.
Two persons were reportedly arrested.
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