Minister of
Labour, Chris Ngige has revealed how he was attacked by thugs allegedly
sponsored by Former Anambra gubernatorial aspirant, Tony Nwoye.
Ngige
narrowly escaped death after he was attacked by thugs on Saturday at an APC
ward congress meeting in Awka. He was swiftly whisked away by security
operatives and aides.
A statement
by head of his media office, Chikwelugo Obidiwe, said the subsequent violence
that marred the stakeholders’ meeting in Awka on Sunday was not only
condemnable but a weird and dangerous phenomenon, completely unknown to
opposition politics in the state.
Accusing
Tony Nwoye, the statement read;
"What
transpired in Awka last Sunday was deliberate and well planned. It was a
desperate determination by Hon. Tony Nwoye to rebrand the Anambra APC the
violent way.
It was a
rehearse of a rogue ideology which has been a trademark from his former party,
the PDP. Many were shocked by the swam of cultists, arsonists and deadly thugs
that accompanied him to the venue of the meeting because they thought the
aphorism of ‘behaving like the Romans while in Rome’ had impacted some lessons
on this political proselytes in the opposition fold. How erroneous they
were."
The
statement also revealed that the minister actually intervened to rescue of one
of the six members of the Ward Congress Committee, posted to the state by the
national secretariat of the party, Musa Yunusa, who had been beaten black and
blue by the thugs.
"The
minister, already taken to safety by his security, broke away from protection,
to intervene to rescue Yunusa, almost lifeless. The doctors, as we speak,
battled to save his life at Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, from where
he was transferred to another hospital, because of the JOHESU strike. The
interest of the minister, we wish to state, once more, was to ensure a credible
exercise as the leader of the party in Anambra State."
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