PDP Youths Beat Commissioner To Stupor In Delta State

Delta State Commissioner for Secondary and Basic Education, Patrick

Muoboghare, was attacked and brutally beaten 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.



According to SaharaReporters sources, the attack on the commissioner,

who is a professor and a former state chairman of the Academics Staff

Union of Universities (ASUU), was carried out by a group of armed and

aggrieved PDP youths.



The sources said further that the Commissioner was stabbed several

times at the party secretariat in Ughelli North local government area

of the state.

One source disclosed that the badly beaten commissioner was in very

critical condition at the Oghara Teaching Hospital.



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.



"We the youths were very disappointed that a professor involved

himself in such shady acts," said one of the youth leaders. He added

that some irate youths had ambushed the commissioner and beaten him

close to the point of death.

One of the sources said the commissioner was first rushed to a private

hospital before been transferred to the Delta State University

Teaching Hospital, Oghara.



Several youth activists revealed that their anger with the

commissioner was compounded by the fact that he rarely visited his

home area. "Professor Patrick Muoboghare is not even known by his own

people, only for him to visit and to be forcing a doctored list of the

party executives on us. That's why youths aggressively resisted," one

party member said.

"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."