Over 50 stern looking policemen and Civil Defence officers Saturday barricaded the Abakaliki Township Stadium venue of victory rally for the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. The event was scheduled to hold at 9am.
But as early as 8:30am, armed police and Civil Defence officers barricaded the entrance gate leading into the stadium with the armoured personnel carrier drafted to the area.
The event was organised by a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The party has been enmeshed in crisis with two factions battling for supremacy.
A faction loyal to the governorship candidate of the party in the just concluded general elections, Senator Julius Ucha, which has Hon. Ben Nwaobasi as state chairman of the party, had suspended a governorship aspirant of the party and Ebonyi State Coordinator of Buhari Campaign Organisation, Chief Austine Igwe Edeze and four officers of the party including the Deputy Chairman, Pastor Eze Nwachukwu Eze.
The other faction loyal to the former governor of old Abia State and National Chairman of the defunct ANPP, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu had elected Pastor Eze as the new Chairman of the party. The presence of the security operatives prevented the event from holding.
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