By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

CALABAR— ONE person was feared dead, weekend, following controversy that trailed the just concluded inauguration of ward executive of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State.

PDP,  weekend, inaugurated ward executives in the 196 electoral wards in the state but the reception in some wards turned bloody over alleged supremacy tussle between two rival cult groups, which had been in firm grip of political structures in the state.

Investigations revealed that some members of one of the groups had alleged that they were excluded in the composition of the ward executive and had also lost one of their members in their protest over the development.

In ward nine of Calabar South Local Government Area of the state, one of the aggrieved persons, who reportedly told his colleague at the reception ground to adjust his seat  was immediately shot dead, while the Woman Leader of the area known as Mrs. Ekpo left the venue with her car’s windscreen shattered.

In Ward Six of the same Calabar South council,  Chairman of Elders Forum of the ward escaped being lynched but the windscreen of his black Lexus was smashed, while a former councillorship candidate in the ward, Archibong Edem-Orok’s Nissan Xterra jeep was vandalized with his iPad and N129, 000 allegedly stolen by a group of 20 boys, who struck at the venue while the reception was going on.