Thugs invade Enugu APC office as party suspends Ex-speaker, three others

*Seize TVC, NTA cameras

By Moses Oyediran, Enugu

Over 100 thugs Tuesday invaded the Enugu state All Progressive Congress, APC, Secretariat as the State Working Committee of the party suspended former speaker of the state House of Assembly, Barr Eugene Odo and three other members of the party in the state.

The thugs stormed the party Secretariat disrupted the state caretaker Executive Committee meeting where the state party chairman, Dr Ben Nwoye flanked by other members announced the indefinite suspension of Barr Eugene Odo, Ada Ogbu, Flavour Eze, personal assistant to Minister of Foreign Affairs and El- Aja over their role in the last APC ward Congress.

The thugs who swooped on journalists seized cameras of both TVC and NTA from their various cameramen covering the event and chased away everyone from the party house.

Nwoye stated that the suspended members were sanctioned following their anti democratic conducts during the last APC ward Congress.

The Chairman explained that the suspension is part of recommendation of a committee set up by the state Caretaker working committee to investigate the role of the said suspended members.

According to the Committee which investigated the four erring members, headed by the Enugu East zonal Caretaker committee Chairman, Chief Anike Nwoga, the former speaker and the three others were found to have been vested with responsibility of collecting fictitious names in their respective zones which they filed in as ward executives.

The report according to Nwoye, also uncovered that Odoh, and the three other members hired some mercenaries whom they used in writing fake results of the Ward congress at the South East zonal office of the APC.

He said that the Committee equally discovered that the former Speaker took the forged result to the INEC office on 3rd of July as directed by the Enugu Ward Congress committee chairman, Dr Ijeoma Arodiogbu, who was part of the the master minders of the electoral fraud.

“The result forging scheme was executed by Eugene Odoh, Flavour Eze, Ada Ogbu and El- Aja, and we must say no to this undemocratic conducts.

“As a country and state, we must say no to this antics and undemocratic acts by some people who do not wish our great party well. We must let them know that power belongs to the people.

Nwoye, who received a vote of confidence by the the state Exco, during the netting, had announced the appointment of Chief Tony Ibekwe as the new Acting Zonal Caretaker Committee Chairman for Enugu West chapter of the party, following the death of it’s former Chairman, Ikechukwu Omenkukwu who died few months ago.

Similarly, Mr. Ejiofor Okoloagu, was named the state Chairman of the party in Igbo Etiti local government Area of the state.

However, reacting to his Purported suspension by some members of the party who converged in a hotel in Enugu to say that they have suspended him Nwoye, dismissed the act, insisting that the said members involved had no such powers to convene SEC meeting in the first instance.

He described the purported removal as a ruse and laughable , adding that those involved in the announcement were impostors.