Mudiaga Affe, Calabar
At least no fewer than 100 fierce-looking policemen on Sunday sealed off the Ikot-Ansa Town Hall, proposed venue of the congress of the All Progressives Congress in Calabar, Cross River State.
They said the intervention was meant to avert what was referred to as ‘bloodbath’.
Despite the blockade, a faction of the APC led by a former governor of the state, Clement Ebri; and the senator representing the central senatorial district in the National Assembly, John Owan-Enoh, elected a new chairman, Dr. Mathew Achigbe and other executive members of the party by voice votes at another venue.
Our correspondent learnt that the venue was sealed off as early as 9am following the directive by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, who deployed a crack team of security operatives to forestall breakdown of law and order.
Specifically, Inuwa had told our…
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