Senator Chris Anyanwu (APGA, Imo) said security aides
attached to Governor Rochas Okorocha clashed with her aides in Owerri Wednesday
night.
She said the governors security
guards attacked and brutalised her drivers in what depicts growing political
tension between the two former allies.
Briefing newsmen yesterday in her
residence in Owerri, Anyanwu said the ugly incident occurred between 6-7pm when
the governor’ convoy swerved into her own convoy at Azara Egbelu along
Owerri/Umuahia road on her way to her village.
She explained that initially her
convoy did not notice that of the governor as there was no sign but eventually
cleared off only to be attacked by security men attached to Okorocha’s convoy.
The senator said the voice and cries
of her drivers forced her to come down from her car to beg the security details
not to kill them.
Reacting in a press statement issued
to newsmen in Owerri yesterday, media aide to the governor, Mr Ebere Uzoukwa
said Okorocha also narrowly escaped death when the convoy of Senator
Anyanwu rammed into his convoy on the same day.
He said the governor was returning
from Ihitte-Uboma after an official assignment when the incident took place at
Azaraegbelu along Owerri/Umuahia express way.
According to the statement, the senator’s vehicles suddenly rammed into the governor’s convoy close to the staff car cutting off the lead security vehicle after overtaking dangerously and in a very suspicious manner.
The situation according to him having
posed a serious security threat forced the security men in the governor’s
convoy into gallant struggle to shield the governor against the possible attack
before the vehicles were dispatched from the convoy.
The SA expressed surprise that the
senator when alerted from her vehicle slapped both the governor’s aide camp and
chief detail and even ordered her naval security person to open fire.
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