2027: Ex-Ebonyi PDP chairman alleges attack by APC thugs, accuses police of supporting ruling party

A erstwhile Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful Ebonyi State, Ifeanyi Nworie, has alleged a nonchalent disposition by operatives of the State Police Command implicit the plight of enactment members and different absorption supporters successful the state.

He made the allegations during a gathering with journalists connected Wednesday, successful Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

Nworie, a erstwhile PDP president successful the state, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, soon aft the 2023 wide elections connected idiosyncratic grounds.

He was precocious attacked alongside his supporters and journalists successful Ikwuator village, Idemba assemblage successful Ezza South Local Government Area of the authorities by implicit 50 thugs suspected to beryllium moving for the APC.

The thugs reportedly disrupted a rally organised by the PDP to denote his defection from the APC backmost to the PDP successful the state, Nworie alleged

The event, primitively billed to instrumentality spot astatine the colony quadrate successful Idemba assemblage was moved to his compound erstwhile the thugs allegedly stormed the venue and disrupted it, destroying integrative chairs, canopies, and different spot and attacking immoderate idiosyncratic suspected to beryllium attending the rally.

The thugs, who besides inflicted injuries connected 10 members of the PDP, besides attacked journalists who came to screen the event.

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