ers (1) (2) (3) (4) (0) (1) (2) (3) (Reply) (Follow) (Go Down) Delta PDP Chairman, Youths, Beat Up Former PDP National Chairman’s Wife by gratiaeo: 2:39pm On Jul 12 “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. Mrs. Ahmadu Ali shows part of her torn clothes after the fight at the PDP Secretariat in Asaba 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. A SaharaReporters 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. Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali’s torn clothes “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. Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali’s torn clothes “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. http://saharareporters.com/2014/07/11/delta-pdp- chairman-youths-beat-former

PDP Chairman, Youths, Beat Up Former PDP
National Chairman’s Wife by gratiaeo: 2:39pm On Jul 12 “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. Mrs. Ahmadu Ali shows part of her torn clothes after the fight at the PDP Secretariat in
Asaba 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. A SaharaReporters 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. Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali’s torn clothes “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. Mrs. Mariam Nneamaka Ali’s torn clothes “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. http://saharareporters.com/2014/07/11/delta-pdp-
chairman-youths-beat-former-pdp-national-
chairmans-wife

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Lagos Issues Alert On Ebola, Givesprecautionary Tips
A file photo taken on June 25, 2014 shows the
isolation ward at the Donka Hospital in Conakry where
people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated.
A
regional centre is being set up in Guinea to coordinate
the response to the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola that has killed hundreds of people in West Africa, the World
Health Organisation said on July 11, 2014. The
haemorrhagic fever sweeping through Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone has left an estimated 539 people
dead,
according to the latest WHO figures. Worried by the increasing cases of deaths from
the outbreak of Ebola virus in some neighbouring West
African countries, the Lagos state government,
yesterday gave some precautionary measures to
prevent the outbreak of the deadly virus in the state.
Ebola virus is currently ravaging many communities in some West African countries like Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone among others.
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, in a statement,
said the measures became necessary with a view to
preventing the outbreak of the disease in the State,
listing the measures include; washing of hands often with soap and water, avoiding close contact with
people
who are sick and ensuring that objects used by the sick
are decontaminated and properly disposed.
He advised health workers to be at alert and ensure
they always wore personal protective equipment as well
as observed universal basic precautions when attending
to suspected or confirmed cases, and report same to
their Local Government Area or Ministry of Health
immediately.
Idris explained that “Ebola virus ds caused by the Ebola virus and outbreaks occur primarily in villages of the
Central and West Africa. The virus can be spread
through, close contact with the blood, body fluids,
organ
and tissues of infected animals; direct contact with
blood, organ or body secretions of an infected person. The transmission of the virus by other animals like
monkey and chimpanzee cannot be ruled out.”
The Commissioner noted that those at the highest risk
of the disease included health workers; and families or
friends of an infected who could be infected in the
course of feeding, holding and caring for them. He stressed that “Early symptoms of disease include
fever, headache, chills, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, sore
throat, backache, and joint pains. Later symptoms
include bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose, bleeding
from the mouth and rectum, eye swelling, swelling of
the genitals and rashes all over the body that often contain
blood. It could progress to coma, shock and death.”
Idris noted that presently, there was no specific
treatment for Ebola disease, stressing that infected
persons would need to be admitted into the hospital
for specialised care and treated in isolation. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/lagos-issues-
alert-ebola-gives-precautionary-tips/