Drug Market Traders “Coup” Fail at Onitsha, Head Bridge Market

       

Odogwuemekaodogwu.com informs that an attempt to unseat the present leadership of Onitsha Drug Market, known as Onitsha Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers Union (OPPMDU) located along Onitsha/Asaba Expressway has hit the rocks .

            Some traders led by one Mr. Uche Ubah, Chairman of “Tablet line” who was said to be aspiring for the chairmanship position of the central market was reliably gathered to have led a group of traders mainly from the market Evangelism Committee to an illegal meeting where issues allegedly relating on how to cause crisis in the market was to be discussed in a bid to achieve his ambition.

            According to a market source, trouble started when a group of traders who were among the members of the Evangelism Committee said to be against Mr. Ubah’s ambition rose against the agitation of the ambitious trader.

            The source told reporters that the incident which generated a lot of tension among the group, however, degenerated and the meeting came to an abrupt end as they engaged one another in a free for all fight.

            Reacting to the allegation that he masterminded the crisis, the market chairman, Hon. Nwosu  Ugochukwu observed that the attempt to unseat him by Mr. Ubah and his cohorts has boomeranged as the they never found anything positive in his interim leadership .

            According to Hon .Ugochukwu whose caretaker committee was appointed by the Anambra  State Government pending the time an election would be conducted in the market.

            He claimed that the action of his detractors who had for long defied government directives to halt further moves for election had converted their group as de facto leaders of the drug market, adding that the allegation that five persons were injured was false as nobody sustained any form of injury in the purported fracas.

            When this reporter visited the market active business was going on as there was no report of any major incident in the controversial drug market.   

From  Afam Aminu Chimezie,Onitsha.