Journalists Covering APC Unity Meeting Escape Death

Ten journalists who went to cover the Delta state All Progressives Congress, (APC), enlarged unity meeting on Saturday at Evwreni, Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state escaped death following attack by armed State Security Service, (SSS) and policemen attached to the Niger Delta Development Commission.

Trouble started shortly after the meeting which was held at the country home of the party's 2015 APC governorship candidate in the state, O'tega Emerhor and asked the journalists to meet him at his sitting room for interview when the security operatives attached to the NDDC Executive Director (Projects), Samuel Adjogbe descended on the newsmen at the main entrance to the sitting room with their gun butts and threatened to kill the journalists.

A member of the APC who witnessed the ugly scenario at the main entrance to the sitting room said "the crowd at the entrance was overwhelming and the Journalists were paving their way to meet Olorogun Emerhor for interview and immediately the SSS attached to the NDDC Executive Director (Projects), called Ogaga descended on one Gabriel Choba, the Ughelli correspondent of New Telegraph Newspapers, with his gun butt."

UCJ, UNILORIN.