Sun News
1 April 2011
...As Ohakim, Rochas’ supporters clash
What would have been a bloody clash between supporters of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State
The development was reportedly a fall out of grievances by the opposition against the PDP over the latter’s refusal to allow the former use public facilities for its campaign rallies. This resulted in the former president Olusegn Obasanjo and his chief host, Governor Ikedi Ohakim, being pelted with satchets of water.
In the melee that ensued, the entourage of both the governor and the former president sandwiched by security agencies meandered its way through heavy traffic gridlock on the road to the Dan Anyim Stadium for the grand finale of the PDP rally. Trouble was said to have started when aggrieved protesters at the Okigwe Road Roundabout sighted the convoy of the former President and his host, Ohakim, they hauled sachets of pure water and stones at the vehicles.
Daily Sun reports that the APGA governorship candidate for the April 16 polls in the state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, had earlfier fixed his grand finale rally at the Grasshoppers International Handball Stadium Owerri yesterday but the state Governor Ohakim suddenly rescheduled his own rally at the same venue on the same day.
Owelle later shifted the venue of his rally to the Township Primary School
The APGA governorship candidate embarked on a road show with his teeming supporters on the major streets of Owerri that held the metropolis to a standstill for several hours. He later shifted his rally to Rochas Foundation Plaza
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