The lawmaker said that he was happy to go back to his roots.
The communal crisis was a spillover of a supremacy battle between supporters of the state APC chairman and a House of Representatives candidate.
The party said the ‘recalcitrant’ members still belonged to the party and would not be discriminated against.
Twenty-seven All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly aspirants in Ebonyi have alleged plans by the screening committee to disqualify them.
“We are told that we have to pay N200,000 as internally generated revenue; N200,000 for local government clearance and another N500,000 for state clearance.”
“The judgement was clearly biased and it’s unacceptable…and will surely be appealed.”
“We got the hint that some men of the underworld are constituting nuisance around the Afikpo axis. Upon our investigation, we found out that the gang deals in hard drugs…”
“I have been involved in two or three robberies at the popular meat market in Abakaliki,” one of the suspects said.
According to an eyewitness, the gunmen also destroyed police vehicles and a motorcycle and stole some property.
