Delta Speaker Orders His Thugs, Police To Beat Up Opponent

“As I was being beaten, I overheard the
Speaker saying to the thugs and the police
that they should not allow me to participate in
the primaries and make sure I am beaten up
to the point of taking me to the hospital. Even
one of the thugs and a policeman threatened me
that if I love my life I should leave or my
lifeless body will be found in the gutter,” the
aspirant narrated.

The last may not have been heard about the last
Saturday’s controversial Peoples Democracy
Party (PDP) House of Assembly primaries in
Delta State as the State House of Assembly
speaker; Mr. Peter Onwunsaya, reportedly
ordered his thugs and men of the Nigeria Police to
beat up his opponent for the same seat.

Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the speaker’s
thugs and the police, Delta State House of
Assembly hopeful under the People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) in Oshimili South Constituency,
the same constituency as the speaker, Ogbueshi
Ifeanyi Gabriel, stated that the Speaker on that
fateful day of the primaries at the indoor sports hall
of Stephen Keshi stadium, Asaba, ordered stern-
looking boys believed to be his thugs and the police to
beat him up mercilessly.
“I am an aspirant for the Assembly primaries, and
as at Friday 28, the local government PDP
chairman, Mr. Maduemzie, met with us and said
that the aspirants are expected to be at the venue on
Saturday by 8:30am and I came to the venue at
about 8:45am when the Divisional Police Officer
of ‘B’ Division Asaba, refused to allow me into the
premise and ask me to stay by the side.

“So I stood at the gate. 30 minutes after, the
Speaker who is also an aspirant, Hon Peter
Onwusanya, and the chairman of the council, Hon.
Chuks Obusom, came and the police allowed them
in and the some of the policemen at the gate went in
went the speaker. After about 20 minutes they came
out with some stern-looking youths and I
confronted the DPO why [they were] allowing
other aspirants in, are they [more] special than I?
And he told me that there [was] an order from
above to arrest me.
“Shortly after I questioned the order from above,
before I could know what was happening, the
DPO and his men and the thugs started beating
me, tore my cloths, teargassed me and the Speaker
asked the police to send me away and then, I
quickly rushed to the Department of Security
Service (DSS) office. From there I moved to
the police headquarters to complain to the
Commissioner of Police. On my coming out from
the Police Headquarters, I collapsed, and later
found myself in Okwe general hospital.  I am
calling for the cancellation of
the Saturday’s exercise and I am also calling on the
police authority to single out the police men that
beat me up.

“As I was being beaten, I overheard the Speaker
saying to the thugs and the police that they should
not allow me to participate in the primaries and
make sure I am beaten up to the point of taking me
to the hospital. Even one of the thugs and a
policeman threatened me that if I love my life I
should leave or my lifeless body will be found in the
gutter,” the aspirant narrated.
Gabriel condemned the usage of security agents and
thugs by the speaker, noting that he never
participated in the PDP primaries exercise and
has submitted his petition to the panel committee.
Speaker Onwunsaya rebuffed calls and messages
sent to his mobile line. One of his aides, who
pleaded that his should not be mentioned, exonerated
his boss of any wrong-doing, insisting that what
happened to the aspirant was solely carried out by
the police and not the speaker's boys.
Meanwhile, as the controversy continues to trail last
Saturday's PDP primaries in Delta state, it was
learned that on Tuesday night, at the Delta State
governor's lodge in Abuja, state governor,
Emmanuel Uduaghan, Patani constituency
representative, Nicholas Mutu, former state PDP
chairman, Peter Nwaoboshi and the acting PDP
chairman, Edwin Uzor, Director of Protocol
(DOP), held hostage the panel chairman and his
members in charge of the House of Assembly
primaries.
SaharaReporters gathered that the panel was
offered several million Naira and dollars to falsify
the results in favour of Uduaghan's candidates, but
the panel vehemently refused to succumb.

Source:Saharareporters