PDP Coordinators Beat Up Zonal Secretary

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, campaign co-
ordinators drawn from the 236 wards across
Ogun State, western Nigeria, on Wednesday beat
up the South West Zonal Secretary of the party,
Chief Pegba Otemolu, for refusing to share the
money allegedly given to them by President
Goodluck Jonathan.
Some of the state campaign coordinators went
berserk following the failure of Alhaji Fatai
Adeyanju, the National Auditor of the party and
Chief Pegba Otemolu to release the fund allegedly
meant for the state co-ordinators engaged for
President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election.
Our correspondent gathered that a 5-hour meeting
held at a hotel on Quarry Road in Abeokuta, the
state capital, to sensitise all the 708 Co-
ordinators drawn from the 236 wards across the
state, ended in a shouting match which resulted
in the attack on the national officers of the party.
Sources at the meeting said trouble started when
the National Auditor of the party, during the
course of the meeting, told the coordinators that
the fund meant for them was not available at the
meeting.
One of the coordinators, who asked to remain
anonymous, told our correspondent that Adeyanju
informed them that the money had not been
deposited in the designated account, whereas
they knew he was lying.
The co-ordinators consequently held the two
party leaders hostage and insisted thatthey would
not allow them to go until they release the fund
meant for them.
The two party leaders were held hostage for
hours after which some political thugs escorted
Otemolu out of the hall and he quickly entered his
waiting Honda Pilot SUV.
But an attempt by the driver to whisk away his
boss resulted in an accident which left one of the
coordinators from Sagamu seriously injured.
The injured man is currently being treated in an
undisclosed hospital in Abeokuta.
The incident sparked off anger as the other
aggrieved coordinators pounced on Otemolu and
bundled him out of his car which had hit the
median and hit another parked car on the other
side of the road.
Adeyanju took to his heels when he saw Otemolu
being roughened up along with other leaders by
the aggrieved coordinators and other party
members.
When our correspondent contacted the State
Secretary of the party, Chief Semiu Sodipo, he
declared that nothing like that happened, but
declined to speak further.
See photos of vandalized car and coordinator being beaten*nawa for naija*