Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ebonyi State, Elder Fred Udeogu has sent petitions to the state commissioner of police and Department of State Security, DSS, over allegation of unleashed threat to his life by thugs purportedly loyal to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Udeogu, in a six-paragraph petition he personally signed, tasked the police to immediately arrest and prosecute the said thugs to avert further security breach.
He said: “I write to request you (commissioner of police, DSS) to take immediate investigation into these dangerous threats to my life and limbs. Deciding to belong to a political party of my choice should not be an invitation of death to me. I implore you to act fast to save my life.”
The PDP chairman alleged that the state chairman of APC, Stanley Okoro stormed his resident with the said fierce looking thugs, under the purported directives of the Governor, David Umahi, and demanded for the release of a Tucson vehicle that was in his possession before leaving office as a board chairman.
“Upon my assumption of office as the caretaker chairman of PDP in Ebonyi state, the governor sent his men led by the person he appointed the caretaker chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, Mr Stanley Okoro Emegha to retrieve vehicle that was gifted to me as one of the Elders of the state. Mr. Stanley Okoro Emegha called, threatened and invaded my house with fierce looking thugs,” he said.
Reacting to the allegation,, the caretaker chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Ebonyi state Chapter, Stanley Okoro Emegha, said “this is falsehood. I am a young guy of the new century, and as such I can’t join issues with him (Udeogu).
“I am the commissioner for internal security, and he should know that the vehicle was allotted to him as the chairman of the capital territory board. Now when he is relieved from his duties, did he suppose to go with the official vehicle meant for the commission?
“I wrote a letter and called him on phone to send his driver to bring the vehicle but he said he is in Abuja, that I should give him time. The day he came back, I called him, he said he need a paper, that the governor dashed him the vehicle on friendship basis. And I told him, it wasn’t so.
“He said I should collect a paper that, it is the paper that will prove. I collected the paper and sent my PA in the office to go and deliver it. There is nothing like thugs here, I’m not interested and I will not join issues with him. I have never entered his compound except the day my PA went there to deliver the paper,” he stated.
