A popular High Life musician in Ebonyi State, Kelvin Ibinabo was allegedly brutalized by an Aide to Governor David Umahi in the State
Speaking to journalists, Ibinabo said that the aide, known as Machiavelli Uzo, who is the Coordinator of Ohaozara Development Centre in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, attacked him on Saturday, January 22, with his loyalists and locked him up in a dark room.
Narrating his ordeal, the Musician said he was booked by the Ohaozara local government area Chairman, Consider Ajah to perform at the burial event of his mother-in-law in the Local Government last week.
The musician said that when it was dusk, he ordered his crew to pack up and called it a day.
“It was at that point that the Ohaozara Development Centre Coordinator, Machiaveli Uzo emerged from nowhere and ordered me to play a campaign song of Mr Francis Nwifuru, the APC governorship candidate in Ebonyi State.”
Ibinabo said he replied him that it was nightfall and they should be leaving for Abakaliki and that the event he came to perform was not a political event.
But the Coordinator threatened to attack him with his boys, if he didn’t do what he ordered him to do.
Mr Ibinabo at that point had no choice and for the sake of peace picked microphone and started playing the song for him.
After about 20 minutes he dropped the microphone but Mr Uzo again ordered him to pick the microphone again and continue to sing.
But Ibinabo this time refused to sing and instead ordered his crew to pack up so they could leave the scene.
The Coordinator and his thugs descended on Ibinabo beating him with different weapons. After beating him to pulp, they took him into a room in the compound and locked him up.
The Police in Ohaozara later arrived and rescued him from the room and took him to Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki for treatment.
Mr Ibinabo noted that the Chairman, Consider Ajah was not around when the incident happened as he had left for Abakaliki to attend a meeting. He exonerated the Chairman from the incident adding that the Chairman has been good to him in the past.
