Ex-APC Chairman Abba Yaro escapes attack in Benue

A erstwhile Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Benue State, Hon. Comrade Abba Yaro, has reportedly escaped an onslaught during a burial ceremonial successful Okpoga, Okpokwu Local Government Area of the state.

Yaro was attending the burial of the precocious Raymond Ogwuche over the weekend when suspected thugs allegedly attacked him with bottles and stones.

He was said to person been speaking astatine the burial ceremonial alongside Hon. Chief Vincent Okoko Odo, popularly known arsenic Hon. Tula, erstwhile the onslaught occurred.

According to eyewitness accounts cited by the Ogbadibo Progressives Congress (OPC), the attackers were suspected to beryllium governmental thugs.

Yaro and Odo reportedly escaped the country unhurt.

The OPC, successful a connection signed by its Chairman, Dr David Ujah, and made disposable to journalists on Thursday, condemned the incident, describing it arsenic an onslaught and an battle connected governmental tolerance successful Benue South.

The radical said Yaro, a autochthonal of Ogbadibo Local Government Area, is simply a respected governmental fig who has served some his assemblage and the APC.

“An onslaught connected him is an onslaught connected the full Ogbadibo people. We indispensable emergence to support him and guarantee that justness is done,” the connection said.

The OP...