Unidentified gunmen Thursday morning, stormed Mgbuitanwo, in Emohua Clan, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, killed and beheaded a 28-year-old man identified as Mr. Ukeoma.
The Local government is the home town of the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Saturday’s rerun elections, Chief Andrew Uchendu,
Vanguard reports that the gunmen who laid siege to the community also abducted another resident. At the moment, residents are in shock and fear permeates the area.
Rivers state has been home to political violence since 2015 election with the APC and the PDP are at loggerheads over who takes political offices.
Amid increasing violence ahead of the state House of Assembly re-run election billed for this Saturday, President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Malabo vowed to deal decisively with all sponsors of violence in Rivers state.
“I have given the security services clear directives in this regard”, Buhari said.
“We will show that violence in any form will no longer be tolerated before, during or after elections,” the President said at an interactive meeting with Nigerians resident in Equatorial Guinea.
The President condemned recent political violence in Rivers State, saying that the killing of people over political differences was primitive, barbaric and unacceptable.
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