Youths stab Delta commissioner in Warri

Democratic Party (PDP) from Uwheru community, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, on Saturday, descended on the Delta State Commissioner for Secondary and Basic Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare, over the inauguration of the newly -elected executive.

The event was an inauguration of ward executive members of the PDP  in Ughelli Local Government Area of the state.

As of the time of filing this report, the said commissioner, who received several stabs in his body, is recuperating at the intensive care unit of the  Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Oghara.

The commissioner was said to have only escaped being killed, but escaped with injuries he sustained from several dagger and machetes.

The event was said to have turned sour on Saturday as the commissioner, Professor Muoboghare, was beaten to a pulp by the youth who were said to have  stormed the venue .

Muoboghare, an indigene of Uwheru community, was among other leaders of the PDP billed to witness the inauguration of the  ward executive at the party’s secretariat in Ughelli.

He was said to have abandoned his constituency for long, which was said to have been one of the reasons that angered the youth to  leach their anger on him. - Tribune