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THREE committee members for the ward congress of the All Progressive Congress in Delta State have escaped being lynched by angry aspirants.
The development, it was learnt, forced APC stakeholders to call for a postponement of the exercise in state to allow thousands of aspirants, who paid for forms to collect and return same.gathered that there was confusion at the party secretariat in Asaba on Thursday evening, as hundreds of angry aspirants across the state, who besieged the place with bank tellers, left without getting their forms.However, the three-man committee was said to have escaped being lynched by aggrieved aspirants.
Mr George Egbe, who heads the committee, lamented that upon his team’s arrival in Asaba from Abuja, he was met by an aide to the state Chairman, Nick Ovuakporie, who requested that the materials be given to him for safe-keeping. He said his team was threatened by one Lucky Ajos after he refused their request to take possession of ward congress materials.
Egbe said the leader of the police escort team from Abuja ordered them to remove their belongings from the vehicle at gunpoint and zoomed off with the materials.
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