RIVERS POLICE PROBES KILLING OF APC CAMPAIGN DG, VOW TO ARREST KILLER
The killing of a campaign Director General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ahoada West LGA by yet-to-be-identified gunmen on Saturday 18th March 2023 has triggered a quick investigation order by the Commissioner of Police in charge of election duties in Rivers State Command, Mr. Echeng Echeng.
The victim, Chiosom Lennard, a native of Ahoada was also the Ward 10 leader of APC in the area. He was shot while trying to avert the suspected hoodlums from hijacking the election materials at the just concluded governorship and House of Representative election on Saturday.
Similarly, an ad hoc staff of INEC identified as Julius Akoi was murdered by alleged thugs in Abua/ Odual LGA during the Saturday election.
However, Darlington Nwauju, the spokesperson of the APC in the state, showed his displeasure toward the violence that ensued during the election. He said
“Rivers State has always been a flash point but President Muhammadu Buhari did nothing to secure voters to freely elect their leaders.
“How can you have an election where people were being flogged, abducted, and killed and you call that an election? The violence and nauseating malpractices supervised by the Police and INEC delegitimises the validity of the elections.”
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police has vowed to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to book.
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