The state secretariat of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Benin City was Friday sacked by irate youths who attacked the state chairman of the party, Thomas Okosun and other party officials escaped being lynched by the whiskers.
Theangry youths are believed to a faction of the party from Oredo and Ego councils whose grouse it was gathered had to do with the way councillorship candidates' names were being substituted by party officials.
The chairman and other officers of the party escaped their offices through the back door leading to Akenzua Road but their vehicles were not spared, as the youths destroyed about three vehicles, including a Prado jeep belonging to the chairman of the party.
It was learnt that the youths became infuriated when they learnt that the leadership of the party had ordered that the councillorship positions in Egor and Oredo be shared equally among the two major factional groups in the ACN, even after candidates have emerged in the various wards at the party primaries held last week.
The opposing groups stormed the party's secretariat at about 3pm Friday, engaged in a free for all just as they descended on the party leaders within the premises.
It took the intervention of mobile policemen to disperse the youths when they were about burning down the party's secretariat. Efforts made to get the reaction of the chairman proved abortive as he did not answer his phone.
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Irate Youths Sack Edo ACN Secretariat
Irate Youths Sack Edo ACN Secretariat
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
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