By CHARLES IWUOHA

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi State, has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) launched an attack on its members who testified as witnesses against the party before the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja.

The Caretaker Committee Chairman of PDP in the State, Mr Augustine Nwazunku, on Thursday alleged that the party’s witnesses who testified before the Election Tribunal at Abuja were attacked on return to their respective homes by suspected APC hit men.

Nwazunku, made the allegation in a statement signed and issued to newsmen in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

“Some were brutally attacked by APC hired thugs, with their families, essentially chased out of their homes while business interests of our members’ farm were poisoned with yet to be verified chemical. Over twenty thousand fish fingerlings were physically damaged in some of the episodes of attacks,” PDP alleged.

The party alleged that APC chieftains and leaders had been going around communities and local governments to threaten PDP faithful preparing to go to testify as witnesses before the Tribunal.

“The APC government has threatened to deal with any Ebonyi citizen seen to be hobnobbing with the members of PDP in Ebonyi State,” the statement added.

In a reaction, the State Chairman ofAPC, Mr Stanley Okoro-Emegha, described the allegations as unfounded and challenged the PDP to bring up evidence of the alleged attacks on its members before the public.

Okoro-Emegha said the APC-led government of Ebonyi State is too busy with governance to be distracted by any person or group and urged the PDP to put their house in order and desist from making wide allegations.