Unknown gunmen suspected to be political thugs on Tuesday shot and killed the All Progressives Congress, APC, chairman in Logara/Umuohiagu Ward in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, Ifeanyi Ozoemena.
He was shot dead Tuesday night few hours after presiding over a meeting of the party in his ward.
The meeting was in preparation for the rescheduled presidential and National Assembly elections holding on Saturday, February 23.
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Ozoenema was said to have been killed in the presence of his family.
The vice chairman of Logara Development Union, Mr. Martin Opara, who confirmed the killing said that the community had been in thrown into panic by the incident adding that such a thing had never happened in the community.
He urged the security agencies to fish out the killers of the APC ward chairman without any delay.
Opara said that the Eze-in-council, in conjunction with the community’s town union, had met and sent a delegation to Divisional Police Officer requesting that the masterminds be arrested without any hesitation.