Decorum
was said to have been thrown into the wind Friday, when the Delta State
Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and youths suspected to be loyal to
the party chairman, allegedly in broad day light beat up and tore the clothes
off the wife of the former PDP national chairman, Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali.
The
show of shame occurred when the State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, had
waited to come and perform the formal commissioning of the newly built state
secretariat of the party. It was a presentation of vehicles to the 25 local
government party chairmen in the state.
Correspondents learned that trouble started at the state party
secretariat following a heated argument between the state party chairman, and
the wife of the former PDP national chairman. It was all over a seat.
In
recalling her ordeal, the wife of the former PDP national chairman, Mrs. Mariam
Nneamaka Ali, alleged that as a Board of Trustee member of the party, she had
been, on several occasions, ‘sidelined’ by the state party chairman and others.
According
to Nneamaka Ali, “A PDP stakeholder meeting was held in Abuja and as a Board
member member, I was deliberately not invited and just today, another
stakeholder meeting was held at the state party secretariat. The same time the
same thing happened, I was not informed until someone called me that since I am
in town, it will be nice and wise for me to attend, and I went.
On
arrival, I saw two vacant seats besides the former deputy governor, Chief
Benjamin Elue, and the speaker, Mr. Peter Onwusanya. I quietly seated [myself]
and immediately, to my surprise, the MC of the ceremony publicly announced that
where I was seated was not meant for me,” she said.
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