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Scores of people were injured at the weekend when two factions of the executives Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, engaged themselves in a free-for-all over a lingering leadership crisis at the state party secretariat, Owerri.

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Fighting started when a faction of the party executive loyal to Senator Hope Uzodinma and led by Chief Nnamdi Anyaehie, stormed the secretariat and tried to disrupt a meeting of the Caretaker Committee led by Barr. Vitalis Okafor, whose executive is loyal to the immediate-past deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha.

The Uzodinma men were led by Anyaehie and the aide to the senator, one Chinasa Nwaneri, as they pushed the round table where the caretaker men were meeting, letting it to tumble down on the legs of the caretaker members.

 

But the Ihedioha men fought back and tried to repel the Anyaehie faction, a development that led to free-for-all among the politicians, with some of them freely using the plastic chairs on their perceived opponents.

 

Chinasa Nwaneri, was seen with a broken bottle threatening to do more damage to any of the caretaker members if they returned back to the party secretariat.

 

It took the timely intervention of the intervention of security operatives from the state police headquarters, who dispersed the two factions from the party secretariat and locked it.

 

Several persons including loyalists of both executives sustained injuries in the fighting with many of the victims rushed to hospital.

Anyaehie and his supporters immediately drove out of the premises in a long convoy without a world to the press who were calling on him to speak.

Speaking with journalists, the chairman of the caretaker committee, Okafor accused Anyaehie of being responsible for the confusion within the party, saying he was only interested in scheming to perpetuate himself in office.

He added that the meeting was convened to brief members of the party on the latest development in the legal battle between his committee and the Anyaehie faction, stating that Anyaehie’s tenure had since expired as pronounced by the Party’s National Executive Council, which subsequently installed his caretaker committee to preside over the affairs of the party for three months.

Okafor called on the members of the party to remain calm and law abiding and to go to their various LGAs and spread the news that the Anyaehie-led executive had been rejected, stating that, “It is regrettable that somebody, who parades himself as a party Chairman could engage thugs to disrupt a meeting authorised by the National Publicity Secretary of our party, Chief Oliseh Metu.’’

According to him, “The people of the state and the PDP have rejected them because they have failed; yet, they do not want to read the writing on the wall.”

Reacting to the development, Barr C.O.C Akaolisa who is of the Barr. Anyaehie’s faction, accused Chief Okafor’s faction of attacking them with thugs in order to disrupt the executive meeting after the Anyaehie group was upheld by Abuja.

According to Barr. Akaolisa, while they were seated in the party secretariat having their meeting, their rivals moved into the hall with strange looking youths and disrupted the proceedings.

The renowned lawyer accused the Okafor’s faction of preparing for a showdown by coming to the secretariat when the court had warned them not to, even to the extent of using thugs to attack and disrupt their meeting.

“They came with thugs to disrupt the meeting. We had to defend ourselves but thank God that the security men promptly intervened” he informed.

“The chairman, Barr. Anyaehie was already seated, they walked in and disrupted the meeting, meanwhile the court had already warned them not to hold meetings at the secretariat” Akaolisa added.

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