Gunmen on Thursday killed the ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Ife/Akpodim/Chokoneze Ward in the Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, Chiedoziem Anyanwu.
According To sources the men who were riding on a motorcycle stormed his house and requested to see him. On identifying him as the one, they shot him dead.
His killers were said to have ensured that he was dead before they fled the scene.
One of the sources said, “The chairman of the PDP in Ife/Akpodim/Chokoneze ward in the Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area has been killed. He was shot dead in his wife’s presence by gunmen who requested to see him.
“The development has brought an uneasy calm to the fold of the PDP in the state. The slain party chairman was vibrant. Nobody knew why he was killed.”
When contacted, the Director General of the New Media of the PDP in the state, Lancelot Obiaku, confirmed the killing.
He, however, called for the arrest and prosecution of the killers
The spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, said that he had not been briefed on the killing.
Earlier in February gunmen shot the PDP chairman in Ogbaku ward, Charles Oke, in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the same state.
A source in the community said, “The PDP chairman was shot in his house by gunmen who were waiting for him in his compound.
