{"id":98576,"date":"2019-02-20T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=98576"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:06:18","slug":"gunmen-assassinate-imo-apc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/gunmen-assassinate-imo-apc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen assassinate Imo APC chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gunmen have assassinated chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in Logara\/Umuohiagu Ward in Ngor Okpala Council Area of Imo state, Ifeanyi Ozoemena.<\/p>\n
He was murdered on Tuesday night shortly after presiding over a meeting of the party in the ward.<\/p>\n
The development sparked off fear in the state ahead of Saturday\u2019s rescheduled presidential and National Assembly election.<\/p>\n
The suspected hired assassins were said to have murdered him in his house right before his family members.<\/p>\n
A community leader, Chief Martin Opara, who confirmed the killing to our correspondent, said the community had been thrown into panic and mourning.<\/p>\n
According to him, the community had never witnessed such political killing, urging security agencies to fish out the killers of the APC chieftain without any delay.<\/p>\n
Opara said the Eze-in-Council in conjunction with the community\u2019s town union had met and sent a delegation to Divisional Police Officer requesting masterminds of the dastardly act should be arrested without any hesitation.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThis killing is strange to our community. Report says that he was shot severally in his house until he died.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have met with the Eze-in-council and have sent a delegation to the DPO requesting that the killers should be arrested immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cLogara community is known for peace and we won\u2019t jeopardise peace among us. The deceased finished hosting a meeting of APC members in his ward after which gunmen operating in a jeep came and requested to see him. On sighting him, they shot him severally before they left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Commissioner of Police Dasuki Galadanchi confirmed the killing and said the police have evacuated the corpse.<\/p>\n
According to the CP, the gunmen who killed the APC chieftain operated in an SUV jeep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gunmen have assassinated chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairman in Logara\/Umuohiagu Ward in Ngor Okpala Council Area of Imo state, Ifeanyi Ozoemena. He was murdered on Tuesday night shortly after presiding over a meeting of the party in the ward. The development sparked off fear in the state ahead of Saturday\u2019s rescheduled presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":57478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,4],"tags":[32,908,48016],"yoast_head":"\n