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About 200 men have allegedly invaded the All Progressive Congress, APC Secretariat in Enugu state when the state Chairman of the party, Barrister Ben Nwoye was briefing the press.
The men were said to have forcefully seized the television cameras belonging to Television Continental, TVC and National Television Authority, NTA.
The men, suspected to be aggrieved members of the party stormed the secretariat in company of some men in black outfit welding AK-47 riffles to disrupt the State working committee, SWC meeting.
The state chairman of the party, Nwoye has announced the suspension of some members of the party for anti party activities.
Those suspended were; Honourable Eugene Odo, Flavour Eze, Ada Ogbu and El Aja as contained in the resolution of SWC of the party over anti-party activities during ward congress.
Barrister Nwoye said the suspension was necessary, following the report and recommendation of the investigative and disciplinary committee.
Barrister Nwoye raised alarm on the missing result sheets during the ward congress in Enugu on 30th on July 2021.
He said that Dr Ijeoma Ariodiogbu displayed the sensitive materials on Friday but later went away with them.
“Based on the report, the committee made the following findings, that there is high level conspiracy as some of the party leaders hijacked the result sheets through the congress committee chairman, Dr Ijeoma Ariodiogbu, that Hon Eugene Odo, Ada Ogbu, Flavour Eze and Hon El Aja were directly in position of collecting fictitious names, that Eugene Odo, Princess Ada Ogbu and other co-conspirators influenced the chairman to hand over the sensitive materials to them.
“Based on this findings, the committee made some recommended, that Hon Eugene Odo, Flavour Eze, Princes Ada Ogbu and El Aja should be suspended from the party and that the investigation should continue to find out other high placed party members involved.
“That same report should be forwarded to Imo state APC to commence investigation on the activities of Dr Ijeoma during the ward congress in Enugu. The report should also be forwarded to National chairman to investigate Dr Ijeoma over his conduct during the congress in Enugu,” he said.
He disclosed that the investigative and disciplinary committee was put together immediately the party leadership in the state noticed a foul play which was chaired by Chief Anike Nwogu, Dr Oby Aji as secretary and Chief Chuks Adibe as member.
He said: “During our investigation, we found out that the sensitive material were kept in the custody of Hon Eugene Odo who took those materials to South East secretariat of the party and sought the services of those who wrote report for them.”
He said according to the report, Princess Ada Ogbu was in charge of collecting fake names from the 77 wards in Enugu East senatorial district, Hon Eugene Odo was vested with responsibility of collecting fake names from 102 wards in Enugu North.
He adds that the Minister’s PA, Mr Flavour Eze collected fictitious name from Udi and Ezeagu comprising of 40 wards while El Aja collected name from 41 wards from Aninri, Oji River and Awgu.
Lateefah Ibrahim
