During a Sunday thanksgiving service in the Kastina-Ala
Local Government Area of Benue State, angry supporters of the Peoples
Democratic Party stripped a chieftain, Akor Ikyegh a youth leader in the
Ushongo Local Government Area of the state of the party naked.
His offence: he distributed handbills of Samuel Ortom,
the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
The occasion was the birthday celebration and
thanksgiving service organised by the Special Adviser to Governor Gabriel Suswan
on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Solomon Womb, to mark his 50th
birthday.
Ikyegh is a personal aide to Prof. Daniel Iornem, a
member of the Suswam Campaign Organisation, who defected to PDP after years of
having been in opposition politics.
Trouble started at the venue of the birthday celebration
when a teenager was caught in the arena by PDP supporters, distributing
handbills with Ortom’s message titled, “Rotation of governorship position among
Benue churches: The time for the Pentecostal.”
Angered by the situation, the party supporters beat the
distributor of the handbill mercilessly before he revealed that it was Akor,
the PDP chieftain who was dressed in a PDP attire that sent him.
One of the party supporters pulled a gun and was about to
shoot when the police and men of the vigilante group quickly intervened and
whisked the man away in a patrol vehicle.
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