Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins on Friday killed the
Labour Party candidate for Onuimo Local Government Area in the Imo State House
of Assembly, Christopher Elehu.
Apart from killing him, the gunmen also set his country home
ablaze and destroyed his property including a motorcycle.
Our correspondent gathered that the suspects struck in the early
hours of Friday and shot for over two hours.
It was gathered that the gunmen, who were on rampage, also visited the houses of other politicians in the area but met their absences.
A source who doesn’t want to be mentioned said, “They have
killed Christopher Elehu, popularly known as Wasco. Until his death he was the
Labour Party candidate in Onuimo Local Government Area. They invaded his house
when everybody had gone to sleep and shot for over two hours.
“They killed the man
and burnt his house. They also destroyed his property. His corpse was laying on
the floor with matchet cuts when villagers gathered in the morning.”
The killing of the politician came just ten days after the
LP candidate in a sister LGA, Okigwe, Chukwunonye Irouno, died suddenly.
Irouno who was bid to achor LP’s presidential campaign rally
in the state slumped a night to the occasion. He was rushed to Federal Medical
Center in Owerri where he was pronounced dead.
The police in the state had yet to issue statement
concerning the murder incident.
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