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PDP splits in Lokoja

…As Rep member accuses Ogbeha of thuggery

From IBRAHIM OBANSA; Lokoja

POLITICAL crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lokoja local government area of Kogi State has assumed a dangerous dimension.

At the latest level, allegations of thuggery are being leveled against a party chieftain, former member of the National Assembly, Senator Tunde Ogbeha.

The charges came from the member representing Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency, Buba Jibril,
While addressing journalists in Lokoja, Jibril said it took the intervention of some of his loyalists to escape being killed, even as he paraded his vandalised Peugeot 607 car with registered number NASS-FL246REP which was said to have been attacked by certain hired tugs, suspected to have alleged linkages with Ogbeha.
He also alleged that the senator had vowed ''to deal with him so as to force him out of the leadership of the party in the area.''

He recalled that his problem with Ogbeha started when he was the speaker of the State House of Assembly.
At that time, he said, he was among those who vehemently opposed the infamous third term agenda of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, of which he claimed Ogbeha was ''the arrow head.''

He also traced his problems with Ogbeha to include his refusal to dance to the tune of power shift orchestration's which was led by him and the planned impeachment of the Governor Ibrahim Idris.
He called on the state government, the Inspector General of Police and all well meaning members of the party ''to prevail on the senator as his life is no longer safe.''

When contacted by National Daily, Ogbeha denied any knowledge of the incident and regretted that Jubril, who, he said, was a beneficiary of the internal democracy of the PDP ''is now seeking to destroy that system because of over ambition.''

He declared: ''The PDP local government congress in Lokoja was a success. People must disregard any second list of party officials.'' National Daily investigations showed that two separate congresses have been held in Lokoja.