Mariam Nneamaka Ali, the wife of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Ahmadu Ali, on Friday slapped the Delta State Chairman of the party, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi.
Ali slapped Nwaoboshi at the state secretariat of the party in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
Trouble, The Eagle Online gathered, erupted when the chairman asked Ali to relocate from where she was seated for a meeting of the party’s stakeholders.
Ali was told that the seat she was occupying was meant for the state’s Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, who was also scheduled to be at the meeting.
Nwaoboshi and Ali are vying for the Delta North Senatorial District seat in next year’s general election.
She thus sees the party chairman as a rival.
Ali has contested for the seat in 2007 and 2011 but lost.
Ali was said to have lost her cool as a result of the belief that the powers that be are using Nwaoboshi, whom she considers as her “boy”, against her.
Her belief is that the state chairman of the party was being used to discredit her and to scuttle her ambition.
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