Gunmen have reportedly shot dead the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Coordinator in Ahoada-West Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chisom Lennard, hours after he was abducted.
Lennard had been kidnapped by the gunmen reportedly dressed in Police uniform while voting in the governorship and state’s House of Assembly elections at Ibagwa polling unit 2 ward 10 in Ahoada West Council.
The APC chieftain, it was gathered, tried to stop the gunmen from snatching election materials when he was whisked away in a commando-like fashion.
The state’s APC Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, confirmed the incident.
Nwauju said, “He was abducted from his polling unit during the voting process and taken away.
“Nobody knew where they took him to. It was later in the evening of Saturday that his body was discovered.
“He was APC LGA caretaker chairman and was a PhD student at the Rivers State University.”
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The late Lennard’s body was riddled with bullets in a pool of his own blood along the Ibueahi-Ubeta road in Ahoada West LGA of the state.
The late APC chieftain was an Estate Surveyor and a former Board member of the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority during the tenure of Rotimi Amaechi.
When contacted, spokesperson of the state’s Police Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, could not immediately confirmed the killing of the Party chieftain as at the time of filing this report.
