Enyim Enyim
30 December 2008
Onitsha — The cold war between governor Peter Obi of Anambra and the former governor of the state, Dr. Chris Ngige took a different dimension Saturday when Ngige's Tundra vehicle was blocked by Obi's three official vehicles at a function at Nawfia.
The duo had paid a visit to the family of the chairman of Anambra state universal basic education board (ASUBEB ), Mr Chima Mbonu who had a memorial service for their parent.
Trouble started when governor Obi arrived the place to behold the presence of Ngige who was already ushered into a very big palour of the last floor of the one storey building where he was received with his entourage
An eye witness told Vanguard that Obi had refused to go upstairs to join Ngige rather he chose to be served downstairs to possibly avoid a forced exchange of pleasantry.
When the former governor arrived the place, his convoy except the Tundra vehicle that he drove in, packed outside. But when governor Obi came, he was driven into the compound which has a very small packing space and two of his official vehicles were packed their blocking Ngige's vehicle while a bus in his convoy was used to literally barricade the small entrance gate to the house.
It was not more than 15 minutes after the arrival of Obi when Ngige and his entourage stood up to go only to find to their chagrin that the former governor's vehicle had been blocked from movement
Expectedly, there were hot exchange of hash words from the well armed security men attached to the duo and it took the timely intervention of some members of the host family to cool the charged atmosphere that could have led to a bloody shoot out by the security men.
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