How Ngige Escaped Mob Attack In Anambra

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, was on Sunday, attacked by a mob during a meeting of stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra state.

The meeting was aimed at harmonising the differences in the party’s Saturday ward congress.

The incident occurred after aggrieved members of the party accused the minister of manipulating the results of the congress.

Security agents swiftly whisked Ngige out of the area as soon as gunshots pervaded the scene.

The gunshots were fired by security personnel to scare the mob who charged at the minister.

Meanwhile, it was learnt that a member of the state’s ward congress committee was beaten to a pulp and stripped naked on allegations that he was among those drafted in the state to work in favour of Ngige.

Speaking earlier in the meeting, a member of the House of Representatives and the APC candidate in the state’s governorship election in 2017, Tony Nwoye said: “We have failed as a party because we do not have any position in Anambra, but It will not work for people to put this party in their pocket so that they can write election results in their houses.

“I will not let Ngige take the function of the panel. We have a panel that is supposed to conduct that congress, and they just came here today (Sunday), whereas you are trying to tell us that elections were held yesterday. How can Ngige be the one to conduct the congress when there is a committee?”