The Ebonyi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the member representing Ishielu South State Constituency, Hon Lukas Arinze, on Tuesday night, led some thugs who attacked members of the PDP at Umuezeoka Ezza Ntezi in Ishielu LGA of the State, on the approval of Governor David Umahi.
In a statement titled “we thought that Governor David Umahi wanted peace, why is he attacking our members?”, the Party’s Publicity Secretary, Barr Silas Onu, alleged that the Lawmakers alongside his thugs beat up PDP members and damaged their properties during the attacks.
The Party had accused Umahi of masterminding attacks on its members across the state that had led to the deaths of some of them and loss of their properties.
According to the PDP, we have been silent in spite of all the recent provocations simply out of respect and courtesy to the Catholic ArchBishop of Abakaliki.
Recall that the Catholic ArchBishop of Abakaliki, Michael Nnachi Okoro, and the founding fathers of the State, recently waded into the feud between Umahi and the leaders of the PDP in the state.
The PDP, in the statement, further accused security agencies of compromise in the attacks against its members in the state.
They Party however, warned that it would not continued to tolerate such intimidations and attacks on its members, saying “enough is enough! If the Governor doesn’t want the respect that we have accorded him thus far, then we are ready to all defend ourselves in the face of this imminent danger caused by desperate political desires of one man.”
The statement reads in part, “Last night, we received a terrible report of the unwarranted attack on our members in Umuezeoka Ezza Ntezi, under the direct leadership of Hon. Arinze Lukas, the member Representing Ishielu South State Constituency in the House of Assembly.
“He led his thugs, clearly with the Governor’s approval, as he is a known loyalist of the Governor, to beat up our members and damaged their properties. This shameful incident took place at about 11 pm on 12 January, 2021.
Daily Independent
