8 APC supporters die in Ebonyi Auto Crash

At least nine persons, eight of them supporters of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), were, Friday morning, crushed to death at Ezzamgbo junction in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state.

Eye witness accounts say an APC branded Sienna van without registration number rammed into a tipper carrying full load of sand.

The tipper was headed to Abakaliki from Enugu while the APC supporters were headed to Enugu from Abakaliki.

“On getting to Ezzamgbo Junction, there was a motorcyclist plying one way, on sighting the motorcyclist, the Sienna driver while attempting to avoid hitting the motorcyclist, the Sienna bus skipped off the lane, jumped over the pavement and rammed into the oncoming tipper killing everyone involved,” Mr Chinedu Egwu, an eyewitness, said.

The eight APC victims were said to be supporters of APC House of Representatives candidate in the last general election, Uche Nshii. They were going to Enugu to witness the Appeal Court Judgment on Ebonyi governorship. The 9th victim was the conductor of the tipper.

The tipper driver and one occupant of the APC car were said to have been critically injured and are currently receiving treatment at the Federal Teaching Hospital in Abakaliki..