In a statement released on Thursday and signed by Augustine Nwazunku, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the PDP in Ebonyi State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of attacking its members who were witnesses at the Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja.
The statement claimed that upon their return to their respective homes, the PDP witnesses who testified before the election tribunal were allegedly subjected to attacks by suspected hitmen affiliated with the APC.
“Some were brutally attacked by APC hired thugs, with their families, essentially chased out of their homes while business interests of our members’ farm were poisoned with yet to be verified chemical. Over twenty thousand fish fingerlings were physically damaged in some of the episodes of attacks,” the statement read.
The party further alleged that members and prominent figures of the APC have been visiting various communities and local governments to intimidate loyal supporters of the PDP who are getting ready to provide testimony as witnesses in front of the Tribunal.
“The APC government has threatened to deal with any Ebonyi citizen seen to be hob-nobbing with the members of PDP in Ebonyi State,” the statement added.
In response to the accusations, Stanley Okoro-Emegha, the state chairman of the APC, dismissed the claims as baseless and urged the PDP to present concrete evidence of the alleged assaults on its members in a public setting.
