The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ebonyi State, today accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of launching an attack on its members who testified as witnesses against the APC before the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja.
The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the PDP in the State, Augustine Nwazunku, alleged that the PDP witnesses who testified before the election Tribunal at Abuja were attacked on return to their respective homes by suspected APC hitmen.
Nwazunku made this known in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Abakaliki the state capital today.
The statement alleged that some were brutally attacked by APC hired thugs, with their families, essentially chased out of their homes while business interests of PDP members’ farm were poisoned with yet to be verified chemical.
The PDP also alleged that over twenty thousand fish fingerlings were physically damaged in some episodes of the attacks.
The Party alleged that APC Chieftains and leaders had been going around communities and local governments to threaten PDP faithfuls preparing to testify as witnesses before the Tribunal.
They also alleged that the APC government has threatened to deal with any Ebonyi citizen seen to be relating with the members of PDP in the state.
Reacting, the State Chairman of the APC, Stanley Okoro-Emegha, described the allegations as unfounded and challenged the PDP to bring up evidence of the alleged attacks on its members before the public.
He said the APC-led government of Ebonyi State is too busy with governance to be distracted by any person or group and urged the PDP to put their house in order and desist from making wide allegations.