The show of shame occurred when the State Governor, Dr.
Emmanuel Uduaghan, had waited to come and perform the formal commissioning of
the newly built state secretariat of the party. It was a presentation of vehicles
to the 25 local government party chairmen in the state.
A SaharaReporters correspondent learned that trouble started
at the state party secretariat following a heated argument between the state
party chairman, and the wife of the former PDP national chairman. It was all
over a seat.
In recalling her ordeal, the wife of the former PDP national
chairman, Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali, alleged that as a Board of Trustee member
of the party, she had been, on several occasions, ‘sidelined’ by the state
party chairman and others.
According to Nneamaka Ali, “A PDP stakeholder meeting was
held in Abuja and as a Board member member, I was deliberately not invited and
just today, another stakeholder meeting was held at the state party
secretariat. The same time the same thing happened, I was not informed until
someone called me that since I am in town, it will be nice and wise for me to
attend, and I went.
On arrival, I saw two vacant seats besides the former deputy
governor, Chief Benjamin Elue, and the speaker, Mr. Peter Onwusanya. I quietly
seated [myself] and immediately, to my surprise, the MC of the ceremony
publicly announced that where I was seated was not meant for me,” she said.
“As that was happening, the state party chairman, Peter
Nwaoboshi, was called to the scene, and walked up to me, and asked me to stand
up from the seat. And before anyone could say, ‘Jack Robinson,’ he gave me
several severe slaps on my face, and started fighting me, and I sprang up from
my seat in defense and immediately, over a hundred youths gathered and started
attacking me, and tore my clothes,” she stated angrily in recalling her ordeal.
Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali's Torn ClothesMrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali's torn clothes
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Also recalling the incident in the same vein, a former
political assistant to the state governor and PDP stalwart, Mr. Okocha Victor,
who corroborated Mrs. Ali’s statement, stated that what actually took place
today shows that ‘the wife of the former PDP national chairman was ganged-up
on,’ and made to be humiliated. He said before now, there was a congress and
the party local chairman, the speaker and the state party chairman, Peter
Nwaoboshi, manipulated the local government party list. He removed the duly elected executive members
after allegedly forging the party’s national legal adviser and signature.
Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali's torn clothesMrs. Mariam Nneamaka
Ali's torn clothes Sahara Reporters Media “She was manhandled, humiliated and
pushed away. Her gold necklace and other valuables were lost in the process.
Chief Solomon Obga, the speaker, former deputy governor, and others, were there
but nobody could do anything. Nwaoboshi forgot so soon how he was brought from
the trenches, and made what he is today by the same woman he has fought. This
was the same woman who made him that he is fighting because of his tall
ambition that he will never achieve,” Okocha Victor said.
“This was same Nwaoboshi who was given N60million, by the
then PDP national chairman, Bamaga Turku, to dispose to the local government
party chairmen, and he ‘seized the money’ till date. He has a penchant of
collecting money from people, and the good people of Delta North will never
have such a dubious character as a senator representing them come 2015,” Okocha
Victor added with anger in his voice.
Giving his own side of the story, the state party chairman,
Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, debunked the allegations of anyone, including himself,
fighting the wife of the former PDP national chairman, Dr Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka
Ali.
According to Nwaoboshi, “She was the one who attacked me,
tore my shirt, and slapped me twice. She went and sat on the chair reserved for
the state deputy governor, and the security agents approached her to look for
somewhere else to sit, and she ‘flared up,’ saying she is a member of Board,
and who is the deputy governor. All efforts to pacify her failed, and she
walked up to me and Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali's torn clothesMrs. Mariam Nneamaka
Ali's torn clothes Sahara Reporters Media asked me if I knew she is a member of
Board. I told her that I don’t know if she is a member of the BOT by my
records. And the next thing I saw was a slap on my face, twice, and she tore my shirt.
“People were there, persons like the former deputy governor,
the 25 local government party chairmen, security agents were all there, to
confirm what I have just told you. Despite the provocation, I did not
retaliate. Even when she slapped me twice, and tore my shirt to shreds. She
could have been lynched if not for my intervention and the elders of the
party,” Nwaoboshi stated.
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