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Delta State Commissioner for Secondary and Basic Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, was attacked, brutally beaten and stabbed several times on Saturday for allegedly trying to force a concocted list of local government ward executives on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Uwheru, Delta State.
He was attacked at the party’s secretariat in Ughelli North LGA of the state.
An eyewitness narrating the event said “as soon as the commissioner arrived [at] the party secretariat, an aggrieved youth threw a chair at him. He dodged it only to be attacked by another youth with a dagger directly at his heart with blood gushing out. His security detail rushed him to the Ufor Hospital, Ughelli for medical attention,”
He was later transferred to the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara, and is in a critical condition.
SaharaReporters’ sources said that the attack was carried out by a group of armed and aggrieved PDP youths.
The sources who spoke to SaharaReporters accused Mr. Muoboghare of being among leaders of the party who designed and oversaw what numerous party members described as a kangaroo inauguration at the party secretariat in Ughelli.
“The congress ought to have held since last year as it happened nationwide, but did not hold in the local government,” said one source.
“But names were doctored by the powers-that-be in the council, but due to fear of reaction from the majority of the party members the ward executives were not inaugurated then.”
He continued: “With the death of Senator Pius Ewherido and the consequent bye-election due to be conducted by INEC to fill the vacant seat soon, some aspirants who have connection with the powers-that-be doctored another list of ward executives which they planned to inaugurate on Saturday.”
Several sources said some top PDP leaders in the state including Steve Oru, Terry Noah, Fred Majemite, Benson Asore and Ovie Agas witnessed the assault but took to their heels as the commissioner came under physical attack.
The sources added that the party’s state chairman, Peter Nwaoboshi, and his entourage also witnessed the attack and took flight.
