- Sunny Okonye
A
new twist to the alleged shooting of a hotelier by suspected political
hoodlums in Boji-Boji-Agbor, Ika South Local Council of Delta State over
an alleged burning down of a campaign billboard has emerged.
The
victim, Mr. Sunny Okonye, has clarified his statements which have been
awashed in the media, saying that he was coerced to implicate Senator
Ifeanyi Okowa and his aides, shortly after the incident in which he was
shot at him several times with a pump action shot gun at close range by
yet to be identified gunmen.
Okonye, still wearing bandages on his left arm, made the revelations on Sunday, June 29, 2014 at a press briefing in Asaba.
According
to him, the caretaker committee chairman of Ika South, Engr. Andrew
Obiazi, who took up the responsibility for his (Sunny Okonye) medical
bills, including promises of funds, empowerment and other sundry
gratification,
had approached him to falsify his oral and written statements at the police station.
- Sunny Okonye! explaining a point
He
insisted that non of Okowa’s aides were present at the time of the
incident but was forced to implicate Senator Ifeanyi Okowa in a bid to
dent his political records ahead of the 2015 governorship elections in
Delta state, in which he has indicated interest to contest.
He
further explained that the council boss enjoined him to claim that his
shooting was connected with an alleged burning down of Senator Okowa’s
2015 governorship campaign billboard at the College of Education
junction in Agbor, adding that his earlier statements were made under
coercion and promises of political and economic empowerment.
It
could be recalled that friends of Senator Okowa had described the
allegation as the handwork of mischief makers who have the penchant of
maligning people, adding that it is an attempt to soil the name of the
Senator because of the Senator’s gubernatorial ambition.
