By Sunday Agbo, Abakaliki
The Ebonyi State govern­ment has raised alarm over alleged threats to attack secondary school principals by a faction of the All Progressives Con­gress (APC), Ebonyi state chapter following what they termed plots by the state government to use them to sensitise the electorate on voter registration exercise.

The news filtered into town fol­lowing report and threat posted by a factional publicity secretary of the party, Nwoba Chika Nwoba, who threatened that the party shall adopt all means to deal with the principals should they undertake any step to increase the number of registered voters in the state.

The APC publicity secretary had written, “the principals and school head-teachers are warned not to invite troubles upon them­selves by way of accepting to do the bidding of the governor of Ebonyi state as any head teacher found indulging in this will face the wrath of APC”.

However, reacting to the threat from APC state publicity secre­tary, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Emmanuel Uzor, described the statement credit­ed to one of the opposition party spokesmen as unfortunate and irresponsible of an image maker.

Uzor said the state govern­ment was not leaving anything to chance, especially when such costly and dangerous statement was coming from the mouth of the party’s spokesman at the time the state is facing a lot of security threats ranging from the discovery of IEDs and other forms of threats ahead of 2019 general election.

He said security agencies have been alerted to the threats on social media and other media platforms by the faction of APC against school teachers and principals of all the secondary school, maintaining that should anything happen to any school head teacher or principal, the APC should be held responsible.

“Ordinarily, one would have ignored the irresponsible state­ment credited to one of the fac­tional publicity secretaries of the APC in the state but for various obvious reasons which includes the fact that the boy works with a faction of the party loyal to a serv­ing minister and a former gover­nor of the state, a people reputa­ble for violence.

Nobody will take such threats for a joke and sec­ondly, the state has been experi­encing strange political activities and security threats, including the recent discovery of IED al­legedly planted in PDP secretari­at targeted against the governor. We are not going to remain mute on these threats because the Bi­ble said that from the abundance of heart, the mouth speaketh.

“We are calling on the Inspec­tor General of Police to order full investigation into the threats to harm our civil servants and provide constant security to our school teachers and principals and protect them from exter­nal aggression from the APC as any other explosive located anywhere around our schools, we will be forced to protect our­selves from these hawks.

“We are also not unaware of the various senseless killings in some states in the country and we are not going to take this threat lightly, especially coming from the APC and that is why we are raising this alarm for the public to know that the security of our brothers and sisters serv­ing their fatherland as teachers or principals are in danger under threat from the APC in Ebonyi state,” he stated

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