“I sprang up from my seat in defense and immediately, over a
hundred youths gathered and started attacking me, and tore my
clothes,” – Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali, wife of former PDP
national chairman.
Decorum was said to have been thrown into the wind Friday,
when the Delta State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), and youths suspected to be loyal to the party chairman,
allegedly in broad day light beat up and tore the clothes off the
wife of the former PDP national chairman, Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka
Ali.
The show of shame occurred when the State Governor, Dr.
Emmanuel Uduaghan, had waited to come and perform the formal
commissioning of the newly built state secretariat of the party. It
was a presentation of vehicles to the 25 local government party
chairmen in the state.
Our correspondent learned that trouble started at the state
party secretariat following a heated argument between the
state party chairman, and the wife of the former PDP national
chairman. It was all over a seat.
In recalling her ordeal, the wife of the former PDP national
chairman, Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali, alleged that as a Board of
Trustee member of the party, she had been, on several
occasions, ‘sidelined’ by the state party chairman and others.
According to Nneamaka Ali, “A PDP stakeholder meeting was held
in Abuja and as a Board member member, I was deliberately not
invited and just today, another stakeholder meeting was held at
the state party secretariat. The same time the same thing
happened, I was not informed until someone called me that since I
am in town, it will be nice and wise for me to attend, and I went.
On arrival, I saw two vacant seats besides the former deputy
governor, Chief Benjamin Elue, and the speaker, Mr. Peter
Onwusanya. I quietly seated [myself] and immediately, to my
surprise, the MC of the ceremony publicly announced that where
I was seated was not meant for me,” she said.
“As that was happening, the state party chairman, Peter
Nwaoboshi, was called to the scene, and walked up to me, and
asked me to stand up from the seat. And before anyone could
say, ‘Jack Robinson,’ he gave me several severe slaps on my
face, and started fighting me, and I sprang up from my seat in
defense and immediately, over a hundred youths gathered and
started attacking me, and tore my clothes,” she stated angrily in
recalling her ordeal.
“She was manhandled, humiliated and pushed away. Her gold
necklace and other valuables were lost in the process. Chief
Solomon Obga, the speaker, former deputy governor, and
others, were there but nobody could do anything. Nwaoboshi
forgot so soon how he was brought from the trenches, and
made what he is today by the same woman he has fought. This
was the same woman who made him that he is fighting because
of his tall ambition that he will never achieve,” Okocha Victor said.
“This was same Nwaoboshi who was given N60million, by the
then PDP national chairman, Bamaga Turku, to dispose to the
local government party chairmen, and he ‘seized the money’ till
date. He has a penchant of collecting money from people, and the
good people of Delta North will never have such a dubious
character as a senator representing them come 2015,” Okocha
Victor added with anger in his voice.
Giving his own side of the story, the state party chairman, Chief
Peter Nwaoboshi, debunked the allegations of anyone, including
himself, fighting the wife of the former PDP national chairman,
Dr Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali.
According to Nwaoboshi, “She was the one who attacked me,
tore my shirt, and slapped me twice. She went and sat on the
chair reserved for the state deputy governor, and the security
agents approached her to look for somewhere else to sit, and
she ‘flared up,’ saying she is a member of Board, and who is the
deputy governor. All efforts to pacify her failed, and she walked
up to me and asked me if I knew she is a member of Board. I told
her that I don’t know if she is a member of the BOT by my
records. And the next thing I saw was a slap on my face, twice,
and she tore my shirt.
“People were there, persons like the former deputy governor,
the 25 local government party chairmen, security agents were all
there, to confirm what I have just told you. Despite the
provocation, I did not retaliate. Even when she slapped me twice,
and tore my shirt to shreds. She could have been lynched if not
for my intervention and the elders of the party,” Nwaoboshi
stated.

but why?

And before i forgt where is your source