Top entertainer Charly Boy reportedly abandoned half way his late father, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa’s lying-in-state in Owerri, Imo state on Wednesday. According to eyewitnesses, governor Rochas Okorocha, members of the state executive council and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Odigie Oyegun, were all seated inside the International Conference Centre, when Charly Boy suddenly got up and decided to walk out of the venue with many asking what could have prompted his action. He ordered his aides, security and cameramen inside the hall to follow him immediately and they stormed out of the venue.
 
It was gathered that Charly Boy decided to leave the venue when it was becoming obvious that the service was beginning to turn to a political rally, a development which did not go down well with the entertainer.


Things went bad when supporters of the governor and other members of the APC in the state had besieged the venue hours before the arrival of the state governor, dancing and singing as they awaited the governor. Charly Boy, it was learnt, was said to have been angered by the seeming political rally which the lying-in-state could lead to owing to the dimension to which it was heading.