The political tempo in Owerri, the Imo State capital took a negative turn yesterday as the secretariat of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was thrown into commotion and confusion as thugs in their hundreds stormed the secretariat injuring several people.
The hoodlums allegedly beat up and injured many principal officers of the party who were at the secretariat.The hoodlums were armed with dangerous weapons.
According to a statement issued in Abuja by the national coordinator of APGA Youth Vanguard for Credible Election (AYVCE), Mr. Ositatinmma Okechukwu Omeze, the thugs were allegedly sponsored by a political chieftain who recently defected to the party to contest the 2011 general elections.
The thugs arrived the secretariat of the party with dozens of youths whom he directed to wait for him outside before he went inside to demand for the postponement of the state congress of the party scheduled for today (Wednesday) on the ground that he needs more time to make consultations, a request that the Imo state chairman of the party, Nze C. C Nwaka said could not be met as everything has been put in place for the congress.
Seeing that his demand could not be met, this political heavyweight resorted to the use of abusive words and intimidation against the chairman and other officers of the party who were carrying out their normal party functions.
He came demanding that the congress be postponed to enable him make consultations. He was advised to conform himself with the rules and guidelines of the party but he got angry and started abusing everybody.
Before this time, he has been lobbying and intimidating the executive members of APGA to grant him automatic ticket to contest the governorship election in the state for which everybody told him was not possible, Ositadinmma said.
He further said when the request failed, he stormed out of the office to meet his boys who had waited outside and within, seconds, they descended on the secretariat, beating and injuring the state chairman Nze Nwaka, the zonal vice Chairman (Owerri) Dr. Iwuagwu and several others while the Woman Leader, Esther Eburuche, jumped out of the office through one of the windows.
I have never seen this level of lawlessness in the past. I can t believe that this man can descend so low. This is a man who joined APGA a few days ago and was given the opportunity to participate in the electoral process like every other member in spite of the fact that he has contributed nothing to the formation and growth of APGA.
Most Nigerians know him as unprincipled political prostitute. It was the magnanimity of the leadership of our party which is at the fore- front of the struggle to entrench lasting democracy in Nigeria that gave him the right to join APGA in spite of information available that he was planted in APGA by our opponents to cause confusion and weaken the Party before the 2011 general elections, Ositadinmma said.
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