Aggrieved youth in Anambra
attempted to attack Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, during a
meeting of stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday.
The meeting, which held in Awka,
the state capital, was aimed at harmonising the differences in the party’s
Saturday ward congress.
Things took a different turn when
aggrieved members of the party started protesting and charged at the minister,
accusing him of manipulating the results of the congress.
They alleged that the minister
was planning to sway the results of the exercise to his favour.
Security personnel on ground,
however, saved the situation as they repelled the mob with sporadic gunshots.
Ngige was escorted out of the
venue as the security situation heightened.
Earlier in the meeting, Tony
Nwoye, a member of the house of representatives, and the APC candidate in the
state’s governorship election in 2017, had accused Ngige of usurping the powers
of the congress committee.
He said: “We have failed as a
party because we do not have any position in Anambra, but It will not work for
people to put this party in their pocket so that they can write election
results in their houses.
“I will not let Ngige take the
function of the panel. We have a panel that is supposed to conduct that
congress, and they just came here today (Sunday), whereas you are trying to
tell us that elections were held yesterday. How can Ngige be the one to conduct
the congress when there is a committee?”
But Ngige denied the allegations,
saying the party had no problem regarding the congress.
He described the congress as a
“brotherly contest”, adding that “we are here to further the cause of the
party.”
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