By Okey Maduforo Awka
The Anambra South Senatorial District by election turned bloody following the alleged attacks on the Deputy Governor Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim and the Commissioner for Environment Engr Felix Odumegwu.
It was reported that the Deputy Governor Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim was attacked and held hostage by irate youths of the area who accused him of vote buying.
The youths were reported to have also attacked the Commissioner for Environment Engr Felix Odumegwu who they alleged came in the company of the Deputy Governor.
Reacting to the incident Gov Charles Soludo shortly after casting his vote at his polling unit in Isuofia Aguata local government area accused the APC gubernatorial candidate Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu of attacking government officials including the Deputy Governor and the Commissioner for Environment Engr Felix Odumegwu describing the incident as an act of thuggery.
Confirming this incident further, the National Publicity Secretary of APGA Mazi Ejimofor Opara described the attack as a clue as to the kind of governor Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu candidate of the APC would be adding that it is indeed unbecoming of someone who is seeking the votes of Anambra electorates in the November 8th gubernatorial election in Anambra state.
“That shows you that thugs are out to govern Anambra state and that is the kind of governor that he would be if on the unlikely event he is elected into office.
“I can confirm to you that the Commissioner for Environment Engr Felix Odumegwu was attacked by the APC thugs sent by their gubernatorial candidate and if not for the security operatives at his country home Ezinifite Aguata it would have been a different story today” he alleged.
“How can Ukachukwu leave his home in Osumenyi in Nnewi South local government area to go to Ezinifite Aguata local government area to attack the Commissioner for Environment? ” he asked.
One of the Aides to Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, Comerade Tony Uche rather accused the Deputy Governor and the Commissioner for Environment of leading an intimidating platoon of Vigilante personnels and stormed Osumenyi the Community of Ukachukwu to manipulate the by-election and buy votes which angered the youths of the area to resist them .
“If you see the number of the Vigilante personnels that came with them on over twenty trucks to highjack the election but the youths resisted them ”
“Ukachukwu never ordered anyone to attack the Deputy Governor and the Commissioner for Environment but that the youths felt that they cannot be intimidated by the vigilante personnels that came to Osumenyi” he contended.
The Sate Public Relations Officer SP Tochukwu Ikenga is yet to react to the incident as at the time of filing this report.
