Do-or-die politics have started. The last may not have been heard about last Saturday’s controversial PDP House of Assembly primaries in Delta State as the House of Assembly speaker; Peter Onwunsaya, reportedly ordered his thugs and men of the Nigeria Police to beat up his opponent for the same seat.
Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the speaker’s thugs and police, Delta State House of Assembly hopeful under the PDP in Oshimili South Constituency, the same constituency as the speaker, Mr. Ogbueshi Ifeanyi Gabriel, stated that the Speaker on that fateful day of the primaries at the indoor sports hall of Stephen Keshi stadium, Asaba, ordered stern-looking boys believed to be his thugs and the police to beat him up mercilessly.
Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the speaker’s thugs and police, Delta State House of Assembly hopeful under the PDP in Oshimili South Constituency, the same constituency as the speaker, Mr. Ogbueshi Ifeanyi Gabriel, stated that the Speaker on that fateful day of the primaries at the indoor sports hall of Stephen Keshi stadium, Asaba, ordered stern-looking boys believed to be his thugs and the police to beat him up mercilessly.
In His words: “As I was being beaten, I overheard the Speaker saying to the thugs and the police that they should not allow me to participate in the primaries and make sure I am beaten up to the point of taking me to the hospital. Even one of the thugs and a policeman threatened me that if I love my life I should leave or my lifeless body will be found in the gutter...
“I am an aspirant for the Assembly primaries, and as at Friday 28, the local government PDP chairman, Mr. Maduemzie, met with us and said that the aspirants are expected to be at the venue on Saturday by 8:30am and I came to the venue at about 8:45am when the Divisional Police Officer of ‘B’ Division Asaba, refused to allow me into the premise and ask me to stay by the side.
“So I stood at the gate. 30 minutes after, the Speaker who is also an aspirant, Hon Peter Onwusanya, and the chairman of the council, Hon. Chuks Obusom, came and the police allowed them in and the some of the policemen at the gate went in went the speaker. After about 20 minutes they came out with some stern-looking youths and I confronted the DPO why [they were] allowing other aspirants in, are they [more] special than I? And he told me that there [was] an order from above to arrest me.
“Shortly after I questioned the order from above, before I could know what was happening, the DPO and his men and the thugs started beating me, tore my cloths, teargassed me and the Speaker asked the police to send me away and then, I quickly rushed to the Department of Security Service (DSS) office. From there I moved to the police headquarters to complain to the Commissioner of Police. On my coming out from the Police Headquarters, I collapsed, and later found myself in Okwe general hospital. I am calling for the cancellation of the Saturday’s exercise and I am also calling on the police authority to single out the police men that beat me up."
Gabriel condemned the usage of security agents and thugs by the speaker, noting that he never participated in the PDP primaries exercise and has submitted his petition to the panel committee.
Speaker Onwunsaya rebuffed calls and SMS sent to his mobile line by SR. One of his aides, who pleaded that he should not be mentioned, exonerated his boss of any wrong-doing, insisting that what happened to the aspirant was solely carried out by the police and not the speaker's boys.
“So I stood at the gate. 30 minutes after, the Speaker who is also an aspirant, Hon Peter Onwusanya, and the chairman of the council, Hon. Chuks Obusom, came and the police allowed them in and the some of the policemen at the gate went in went the speaker. After about 20 minutes they came out with some stern-looking youths and I confronted the DPO why [they were] allowing other aspirants in, are they [more] special than I? And he told me that there [was] an order from above to arrest me.
“Shortly after I questioned the order from above, before I could know what was happening, the DPO and his men and the thugs started beating me, tore my cloths, teargassed me and the Speaker asked the police to send me away and then, I quickly rushed to the Department of Security Service (DSS) office. From there I moved to the police headquarters to complain to the Commissioner of Police. On my coming out from the Police Headquarters, I collapsed, and later found myself in Okwe general hospital. I am calling for the cancellation of the Saturday’s exercise and I am also calling on the police authority to single out the police men that beat me up."
Gabriel condemned the usage of security agents and thugs by the speaker, noting that he never participated in the PDP primaries exercise and has submitted his petition to the panel committee.
Speaker Onwunsaya rebuffed calls and SMS sent to his mobile line by SR. One of his aides, who pleaded that he should not be mentioned, exonerated his boss of any wrong-doing, insisting that what happened to the aspirant was solely carried out by the police and not the speaker's boys.
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