About ten journalists from different media organizations present at Saturday’s All Progressives Congress enlarged unity meeting at Evwreni, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta state according to Sahara reporters were said to have narrowly escaped death following attack by armed State Security Service, (SSS) and policemen attached to the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Executive Director (Projects), Samuel Adjogbe.
Peace let loosed few minutes after which was held at the home of the APC gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 election in Delta state O’tega Emerhor when former governorship aspirant asked the journalists to meet him at his sitting room for interview.
Eye witness at the meeting disclosed that the crowd at the entrance was overwhelming and the Journalists were paving their way to meet Emerhor for interview when the SSS attached to the NDDC Executive Director (Projects), called Ogaga descended on one of them Gabriel Choba, the Ughelli correspondent of New Telegraph Newspapers, with his gun butt and threatened to kill the journalists.
Narrating the incidents the source said “And before we knew what was happening, two policemen, one Mohammed Ibrahim and Udeh Ikechukwu with force number (426801), descended on one Ovie Okpare, the Warri correspondent of the Punch newspapers, one Akpos, the Oghara station manager of African Independent Television, (AIT), and one Prosper, his cameraman and before we know it the policemen started corking their guns and face the Journalists shouting to kill the journalists,”
