BEVERLY HILLS, May 07, (THEWILL) – The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, was whisked away to safety on Sunday as a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Awka, Anambra State, turned violent.
The meeting was for the harmonisation of the results of the party’s ward congress held on Saturday.
However, as the meeting progressed, the candidate of the APC in the November 18, 2017 governorship election in Anambra, Dr Tony Nwoye, openly accused Ngige in the meeting of plotting to hijack the party in the state.
Nwoye told Ngige that he was usurping the functions of the Congress Committee by asserting that ward congress took place on Saturday in the state while it did not.
Nwoye said he had been refraining from speaking about Ngige’s audacity and impunity over the affairs of the party in the state to avoid being accused of being bitter because he ran and lost the election on the platform of the party.
Unable to calm frayed nerves, security details attached to the Minister repeatedly fired repelling shots into the air to scare the mob who had begun to charge at him.
They eventually took him out and drove to safety while the mob charged at supposed supporters of Ngige beating some of them to a pulp.
