{"id":273195,"date":"2011-01-08T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45635"},"modified":"2011-01-08T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:41:00","slug":"i-go-dye-beaten-up-at-pdp-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/08\/i-go-dye-beaten-up-at-pdp-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"I Go Dye beaten up at PDP rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_45636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45636\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-45636\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/08\/i-go-dye-beaten-up-at-pdp-rally\/francis-agoda\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45636\" title=\"Francis Agoda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Francis-Agoda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Agoda,I Go Dye<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFrancis Agoda, popularly known as\u00a0 I\u00a0 Go Dye\u00a0 was few days ago beaten  up by some security personnel at the President Goodluck Jonathan-led  Warri campaign for former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan.<br \/>\nI Go Dye and his friends including I Go Save, Oguns Baba and his  manager\u00a0 were allegedly brutalised by a group of\u00a0 military personnel  led\u00a0 by a senior officer\u00a0 at the Warri Stadium when they were about to  mount the stage to perform.<br \/>\nWe gathered that trouble ensued\u00a0 when the comedian was called on  stage by the compere, Ali baba,\u00a0 and was\u00a0 on his way to the stage when  the overzealous colonel approached him.\u00a0 I Go Dye responded\u00a0 by  introducing himself and those with\u00a0 him to the colonel, including Oguns  Baba, a fellow comedian, I Go Save\u00a0 and his manager but\u00a0 unknown\u00a0 to him  the army officer had a different agenda.<br \/>\nThe officer pushed I Go Dye backward which led to the comedian losing  balance and fell on\u00a0 the ground but before he could regain his balance,  other low ranking officers attached to the colonel descended on I Go  Dye and beat him mercilessly.<br \/>\nThe beating continued unabated\u00a0 to the extent that Oguns Baba\u2019s head\u00a0 was torn\u00a0 by the rampaging soldiers.<br \/>\nWe gathered that all entreaties to the officer and his men to let\u00a0 go  off I Go Dye and his colleagues fell on deaf ears which led other\u00a0  artistes at the venue including the compere, Ali Baba walking out of the  venue en masse.<br \/>\nAlso in a show of solidarity, market women and other who had gathered at the venue left in protest.<br \/>\nThe incident which occurred at the Warri stadium venue of the final  campaign for former governor Emanuel Uduaghan re-elections bid for  Saturday\u2019s\u00a0 re-run election\u00a0 led to droves of people leaving the venue  of the campaign.<br \/>\nI Go Dye who confirmed the incident to Weekend Groove on phone said  he had already informed\u00a0 his lawyers to take legal action against\u00a0 the  Nigerian Army unless\u00a0 they send a written apology within seven days.<br \/>\n\u201c I confirm the story to be true. The soldiers beat me blue and  black. Right now, I\u2019m on my way to the hospital; And as I am talking to  you, I have also instructed my lawyer to file a suit against the  Nigerian Army unless they apologise in writing within a period of seven  days,\u201d I Go Dye stated.<br \/>\nAlso confirming the incident, the Master of Ceremony, Ali Baba  described what transpired at the Warri stadium as the height of  callousness.<br \/>\n\u201cI had just called up I Go Dye to come on stage when a certain  Colonel BA Mohammed\u00a0 approached\u00a0 with his friends including Oguns Baba, I  Go Save and his manager. I Go Dye had thought the Army officer had  wanted\u00a0 to ask him some questions but pushed him which led to his losing  his balance and hitting the ground. What followed that incident\u00a0 was a  like a scene from horror movie,\u201d Ali Baba stated<br \/>\n\u201c It was\u00a0 the height of callousness. I didn\u2019t know that\u00a0 an Army  officer of the rank of a Colonel could display such callousness. The  incident led all of us to leave the stadium because the officer refused\u00a0  to apologise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Agoda, popularly known as\u00a0 I\u00a0 Go Dye\u00a0 was few days ago beaten up by some security personnel at the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Warri campaign for former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. 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