Abia, Ebonyi Delegates Beats Up In APC Convention

Two members of the All Progressives Congress, APC were on Friday, beaten up by delegates from Abia and Ebonyi states at the secretariat of the Convention Committee of the party.

The incident which reportedly followed the violence that brook out during the party’s convention in Abuja, was said to have happened in the presence of security operatives who stood and watch without suing for peace.

It was gathered that one of the victim who was branded as “Ngige boy” was stripped naked close to the secretariat along Emeka Anyaoku Street, Area 11 Abuja.

It was further gathered that the fight broke out between delegates of different factions of the party from Abia and Ebonyi States. The delegates from both states who spoke to newsmen said though they were democratically elected as delegates for the party’s convention, they were denied accreditation by the Convention Committee which is headed by Aliyu Wammako, the governor of Sokoto State alongside Senator Chris Ngige, who discharges the role of a secretary.

According to Uche Emeka, one of the delegates from Abia State attributed their plight to Ngige, Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, former National Chairman of All Nigeria Peoples Party, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu as well as National Vice-Chairman of the party for the South-East, Mr Nyerere.  

“We were reliably informed that Ngige and Okorocha have instructed that our Chairman who is Fabian Okonkwo and the rest of us from Abia State should not be accredited” Emeka said. “We have been calling to inquire and we also have it on good authority that they are directly responsible for this. Our state chairman has been making calls to find out what is wrong, but no answer has been provided.”

Christian Ali, a delegate from Ebonyi State, who said he was the secretary of the party in Ishielu local government area of the state said: “There are two factions of APC in Ebonyi. One is led by Chief Ogbonnaya Onu while the other is led by Senator Julius Ucha and because of that, there seems to be a power tussle between the two of them”, adding that “We conducted the state congresses and elected Hon Ben Nwobasi who belongs to Senator Ucha’s camp as chairman. Accreditation tags have not been handed over to us because the trio of Ngige, Ogbonnaya Onu and Okoroacha directed that the congress in Ebonyi be re-conducted”.

Source: Legit.ng