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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

War In A’ibom • 5 Killed, Many Injured As Acn, Pdp Supporters Clash • Fuel Station, House

No fewer than five persons were feared dead in Ikot Ekpene yesterday as supporters of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) clashed  with  those of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

 The campaign  train of  the CAN, led by its gubernatorial candidate, Senator John  Udoedehe,  was in Ikot Ekpene but was allegedly attacked by the PDP  supporters.  The ACN supporters were said to have fought back. In the ensuing fracas, Daily Sun learnt that two persons were killed  on  the spot while three others, who were carried away from the scene  died  before they got to Uyo.

 The ACN candidate is from Uyo Federal Constituency while his PDP counterpart and the sitting Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, is  from  Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District.

 Apart from the lives lost, at least one filling station, and a house  along  Uyo-Ikot Road, was burnt. More than 20  vehicles were damaged  while  hundreds of supporters of both parties sustained various degrees  of  Some ACN supporters, who managed to escape from Ikot Ekpene,  allegedly  vented their spleen on government and private property in  Uyo, damaging  vehicles and shops suspected to be owned by PDP  supporters.


 They  burnt President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign office  Aba Road secretariat and set ablaze over 500  new vehicles. Sources in Ikot Ekpene told Daily Sun that trouble started when  the ACN  was denied access to the venue of their rally.  “The real theatre of the crisis was the Iko Ekpene - Umuahia  Road  junction. From there they moved to Anwa Udoaka where the filling station was burnt.” He blamed the crisis on ACN members, who tried to force their way through the town even after they had seen that it was not safe for  them  to hold the rally there. “They had been warned that no other party except PDP should  come for  campaign in Annang land. So why did they come?” But the ACN supporters said they were attacked even when they never provoked violence while on the campaign.  “We will fight back. It is not over till it is over

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