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ACN member escape assassins’ bullets
Newsdiaryonline Thur March 31,2011
A member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Edo State,
Hon Andrew Osigwe cheated
death by the whiskers on Wednesday night, when his SUV was
sprayed with bullets by
thugs suspected to be loyal to the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) senatorial
candidate in Edo North, Senator, Yisa Braimoh.
Osigwe, a former councillor who was on his way to Afuze from
Ihievbe, both in Owan
East Local Government Area of Edo State, to the police
headquarters at about
9pm to lodge complaints about the massing of hundreds of thugs
in the Ihievbe home of
Braimoh, was said to have been accosted by the armed thugs who
barricaded the road
around Ivbiogwuonu junction.
As he slowed down to avoid the barricades, his Nissan Pathfinder
SUV 2005 model with
registration number AG 94 AFZ, was engulfed in a volley of
bullets, heavily shattering
the passenger side of the vehicle.
According to him, “As I slowed down to avoid the barricades,
then they opened fire and shattered the right (passenger) side.
The vehicle was heavily shattered. It’s a miracle how I survived
the incident. If you see the car,
you’ll not believe
somebody that drove that vehicle survived. I’m yet to recover
from the shock”.
A former loyalist of Senator Braimoh, Osigwe, also a prominent
youth leader in Owan
East Local Government Area, traced his present predicament to
his last month’s
decision to quit the PDP for the ACN due to broken promises.
This he said was because
the PDP did not offer his people any hope for the future. “I
also felt that the Comrade Governor was doing a very good job in
the state and needed to
be supported so I opted for change”, he said.
Osigwe who earlier sent a petition to the AIG Zone 5, the state
director of the State
Security Service (SSS) and the Commissioner of Police on plan to
eliminate him on March
23, has already reported the incident to the state police
headquarters in Benin
City.
The state ACN chairman, Hon Thomas Okosun who received the news
of the attack on Osigwe
with awe and trepidation, said this incident was a vindication
of the party’s earlier
warning that the PDP was deliberately muzzling his members with
the hope of whittling
the party’s capacity in the forth coming election.
Why saying that the party will not lower its guards in the face
of this brazen affront,
Okosun, a former speaker of the State House of assembly called
on the police to
immediately fish out the perpetrators of this dastardly crime.
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