The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Peter Obi of
Anambra State on Media and Publicity has called on
the people of the state to remain calm over what he
called the stage-managed protest against the
November 16, governorship poll in the state.
Obienyem, in a statement, yesterday, said that
investigations revealed that those who protested,
especially the women that pretended to be crying
placards were imported into Anambra State from
Osun State in five chartered luxurious buses.
He said: “Chris Ngige and his group wanted protests
at all costs, but when our people, who already know
him for what he is, refused, they had to go to Osun
State.
“Even when they imported some boys from Imo State
to protest as students, the Vice Chancellor of Nnandi
Azikiwe University, Prof. Egboka, was alarmed when
contacted on phone. He had to rush down to the
school for investigations. Having discovered that
those involved were not his students, he warned
against those who lost and said he had checked with
all his relevant officials who confirmed that the story
of UNIZIK students was fallacious. We have our
respects, belief and integrity.”
Obienyem added that on further investigation and
interrogation of the boys, they confessed that All
Progressive Congress, APC people paid them N1,500
each and chartered the buses that conveyed them
from Imo State to Anambra.vanguard