{"id":30800,"date":"2014-09-01T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30800"},"modified":"2014-09-01T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T15:36:24","slug":"alleged-assassination-attempt-senator-nwaogu-lied-abia-council-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/alleged-assassination-attempt-senator-nwaogu-lied-abia-council-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Assassination Attempt: Senator Nwaogu Lied -Abia Council Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Transition Committee Chairman of Isiala Ngwa North council area of Abia<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">state, Chief Ginger Onwusibe has dismissed reports by the senator<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">representing Abia Central zone at the National Assembly, Senator Nkechi<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nwaogu linking him to an alleged assassination attempt on her.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a telephone chat with our correspondent, the council boss who described<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Nwaogu as a someone who is in the habit of telling lies to curry<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sympathy said he and other vehicles in his convoy escaped gunshots fired by<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">policemen in the Senator\u2019s convoy by the grace of God.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Narrating the incident which he said took place at Umuoha community along<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Onwusibe alleged that his convoy,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">which included the member representing Isiala Ngwa North in the House of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assembly, Hon. Martin Azubuike and other chieftains of the party of the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">council, was attacked by the Senator\u2019s convoy on their way back from a ward<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">tour.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe have been on a tour of the 10 wards in the council, which was the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">eighth in the series. At the end of the tour, one of the party chieftains<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">invited us for a reception. On our way to his house, we joined the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Expressway from the lane of motorists coming from Umuahia to get to the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">other lane. No sooner had most of the over 30 cars in the vehicles joined<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the road median than we heard a loud blaring of siren with a long convoy.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI saw Senator Nkechi Nwaogu and heard her shouting, that is the stupid<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ginger boy, get him, get him. Policemen and an SSS operative in his convoy<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">started firing. Other policemen came down and started beating my<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">supporters. When they identified my official car with the registration<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">number, LG 01 KPU, two of the MOPOL men in the senator\u2019s convoy started<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">dragging the door to my car, but I resisted them. All through the incident,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Nwaogu was still shouting deal with him, deal with him. Even the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">appeals by an aide to the Hon. Chinenye Ike member representing the Isiala<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ngwa North \/Isiala Ngwa South federal constituency, who was in the convoy<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that they should recognize him and the member representing Isiala Ngwa<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">North in the House of Assembly, Hon. Martin Azubuike, fell on deaf ears as<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">they only stopped shooting when the Senator who was still in her vehicle<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">called them back,\u201d Onwusibe said.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He attributed the attack on him by the senator to his bold support for the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">party\u2019s decision of zoning the 2015 governorship position to Abia South<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">zone which excludes the latter who is serving her second term representing<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abia Central district at the senate.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI attribute this attack on my convoy to my support for the party\u2019s<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">decision zoning the governorship position to Abia South. This is my only<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">crime against Senator Nkechi Nwaogu. Instead of abiding with the decision,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">she has continued to attack the state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji and the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PDP in the state over the zoning policy.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But in a swift reaction, Senator Nwaogu had while addressing a press<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">conference in her Okpu Umuobo residence in Osisioma Ngwa council, described<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the incident as an assassination attempt on her by the council boss.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She alleged that Onwusibe\u2019s convoy waylaid her\u2019s as she was returning to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aba after paying homage to Eze Bernard Enweremadu in Isiala Ngwa North<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">council area whose community held their annual new yam festival on Friday<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">last week.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nwaogu who said she was shocked that a serving Transitional Committee<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chairman who he described as her brother could attack her and her campaign<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">team.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She linked the incident to attempts to stop her from contesting for<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">governor and threatened that nobody; no matter how highly paced can stop<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">her from emerging governor of the state in 2015.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It have sent a text message to Gov. Theodore Orji and also reported to the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Director, SSS of this country, reported also to the police although I have<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">not been able to reach the State Commissioner of Police, Adamu Ibrahim<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">because at that time and till now, his line has not been going through. But<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">if and when I get the commissioner of police, I would talk to him.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Nwaogu alleged that Onwusibe started attacking her since she<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stopped allowing him to continue extorting money from her. In reaction,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Onwusibe said,\u201d If Senator Nwaogu can provide evidence that I have been<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">extorting money from her, I vow to resign from my position as the TC<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">chairman.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dismissing Senator Nwaogu\u2019s allegation as an afterthought, Member<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">representing Isiala Ngwa North state constituency in the Abia House of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Assembly, Hon. Martin Azubuike who was part of the council boss\u2019 convoy,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">told our correspondent that the senator had late on Saturday after the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">incident, put a call across to a chieftain of the party in the constituency<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and told him that she dealt with Ginger Onwusibe on the Expressway and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">threatened that she will teach the council boss a lesson he will never<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">forget.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;There is no doubt that Senator Nkechi Nwaogu is telling lies on the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">incident. Nobody in that convoy which I was part of fired a shot. It was<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">her MOPOL men and somebody who looked like an SSS personnel who continued<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">firing and even attempted to force out Ginger Onwusibe and his wife from<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">his car. They even beat up and tore the T-shirt of our supporters. Some of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">our convoy even ran away when the shooting became too much,\u201d Azubuike said.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pointblanknews.com gathered that Nwaogu and Onwusibe\u2019s relationship<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">appeared to have worsened since the senator was alleged to have threatened<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">during a visit to her late last year by Onwusibe and members of the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Committee that oversaw a reception organized in honour of the Gov. Orji on<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 29, 2013, at the Ngwa High School field, Aba, by the people of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Umunneato comprising the three Ngwa council areas; Osisioma Ngwa, Isiala<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ngwa North and Isiala Ngwa South in Abia Central zone, that Gov. Orji can<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">only be a senator in 2015 if he agrees to swap position with her.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The senator accused Onwusibe of lying against her over the incident which<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the governor was said to have later summoned Nwaogu and members of the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">committee who were present during the visit to the senator over the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">allegation. Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the senator cried before<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the governor that she could not have made such statement but the governor<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">later confirmed the allegation that the senator made the threat.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A ranking member of the PDP from Isiala Ngwa North council area who<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">declined to have his name on print hinted that since the incident, the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">relationship between Gov. Orji and the senator appears to have worsened<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">with the latter blaming the council boss for the situation.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to him,\u201d Instead of abiding with the party\u2019s decision, Senator<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nkechi Nwaogu and her group including Hon. Tony Enwereuzor has been<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">fighting and abusing everybody since the party zoned the governorship<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">position to Abia South. This is why she attacked Ginger Onwusibe who also<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">comes from the same Abia Central zone with her. Even during the Abia at 23<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">celebration at Umuahia last week, you could see that she was still boiling<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">with anger. I heard she is negotiating with APC in the state to contest the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">governorship election. 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