Some delegates at the ongoing national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) exchanged blows while President Muhammadu Buhari was delivering his speech.
Trouble started after a group
loyal to Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, arrived at the stand reserved
for Imo delegates.
They asked those loyal to Eze
Madumere, the deputy governor, to vacate the seats.
The order was resisted, leading
to fisticuffs as the private security guard of the governor called “Okorocha
Good Governance ” descended on members of the group.
Hillary Eke, chairman of the
anti-Okorocha faction, was forcefully
thrown out of his seat alongside other members of the executives.
Osita Izunazo, organising
national secretary of the APC who is opposed to Okorocha, was not spared as he
was led out of the pavilion.
Similarly the Delta State
factions of the party also engaged themselves in free-for-all.
The aggrieved delegates also threw
brooms, the party’s symbol, at each
other.
Earlier, Buhari said the party
would emerge stronger after the convention. He appealed all those all those who
are aggrieved to keep faith.
John Oyegun, former chairman of
the party, thanked APC leaders for the support rendered to him.
He singled out Bola Tinubu, a
national leader of the APC and Tony Mommoh, former chairman of the Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) for mention.
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