Over 2,500 delegates from across the 21 local government areas participated in the exercise to elect the flag-bearer of the party for the November 16 governorship election.
The accreditation of the delegates had been followed by five minutes address of the delegates before the commencement of voting.
The race was closely contested by former governor, Capt Idris Wada, his younger brother, Musa Wada, son of former Governor Ibrahim Idris, Abubakar Idris, and Senator Dino Melaye.
Others who are in the contest are Aminu Abubakar Suleiman, Joe Erico Ameh and Victor Adoji.
Four other aspirants earlier cleared for the primaries reportedly stepped down from the race, Monday night.
However, after the voting and sorting out of the voting commenced some unknown people heavily armed stormed the stadium and started shooting sporadically.
According to an eye witness account the shooting started from outside the stadium but they later gained entrance into the main bowl of the stadium, firing several gun shots into the air.
All the delegates, aspirants, journalists and even some security men had to run for dear lives as they could not contain the situation.
Several people were injured flowing the sporadic shooting as they tried to make their way out of the venue to avoid been killed.
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