Suspected PDP thugs attack LP supporters in Ebonyi

                   One person has been critically injured while many others sustained varying degrees of injuries when supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) attacked Labour Party (LP) supporters in Effium Community, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
In the attack which occurred at Ekpitom village of the community, a Labour Party supporter, Elechi Omeligwe had his head broken with serious matechete cuts on his hands.
               
Narrating his ordeal in the hospital bed, Omeligwe  told The Nation that he had alongside other members of the party travelled to the village for a ward campaign rally during which members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, who are alleged supporters of a candidate of the PDP for Ohaukwu North State Constituency attacked them with dangerous weapons.

He said the thugs, who mounted road blocks with heavy woods to prevent movement of their vehicles also shot sporadically into the air to scare members of the party but when he refused to yield to the intimidation, the hoodlums pounced on him and inflicted machete cuts on his body.

“Trouble started when we were trying to ensure that our supporters entered the vehicle. The PDP supporters mobilized themselves when they went around disseminating false information that they were holding rally that our supporters should not enter the vehicle.
“The people I saw include Fidelis Agena, Joseph Aduma and former councilor, Hon. Akpu Onyebuchi. They are members of PDP. They prevented our supporters from entering the bike we went with. They broke my head with a stick; it was   Joseph Aduma who broke my head and threatened that if I insist on conveying my supporters to the venue of the rally that he would shoot me.