Abakaliki-Cogent reasons have emerged as to why Ebonyi state government stopped popular Nigerian Highlife Musician Chinedu Okoli popularly known as Flavour from performing at a show in Abakaliki on Sunday.

The popular musician had been slated to perform at a show organised by a major beverage production company in the state on Sunday at the Ochudo park, Water Walks Road.

He was said to have entered the state on Saturday preceding the date of the event and prepared to thrill his teeming fans in the state capital of Abakaliki.

But, around 9pm on the day, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Internal Security, Kenneth Ugballa, allegedly led a team of Police officers to the venue.

A source at the venue said Mr Ugbala asked the organisers to shut the show down.

The Police also drove everybody out of the venue of the event obviously on the orders of Mr Ugbala.

The situation incensed the youths and fans of the musician who took to social media to lambast the state government over the action.

But in a reaction on Tuesday Mr Ugbala defended the actions of the government arguing that the shut down was to prevent the kind of nasty incidents that allegedly happened during a similar show held in Enugu recently.

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