CRISIS rocking the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, spilled over to the special national convention where supporters of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator Andy Uba, his brother and a chieftain of the party, Chief Chris Uba, and those of the party’s candidate in the state’s forthcoming gubernatorial poll, Tony Nwoye, engaged in a free-for-all. Eagle Square, venue of the convention, was literally turned into a boxing arena where the Anambra delegates threw decorum to the dogs and engaged in boxing before other delegates.
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*Fight at PDP Special National Convention: Aids of Andy uba and Tony Nwoye clashed at 2013 PDP Special National Convention. Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan.[/caption]Prior to the fight, the Ubas, Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, were already seated at the Anambra State pavilion. Nwoye came in at 11.15am with his supporters which thus charged the atmosphere and led to the fracas between the supporters which lasted for well over thirty minutes.
Oduah, who could no longer watch the theatre of the absurd, stormed out with her aides at 11.22am. Andy Uba and Nwoye had been produced by two parallel PDP primaries as the party’s candidates ahead of the November gubernatorial election last weekend.
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