Anxiety as Gunmen Kidnap Rivers Assembly Candidate Few Days to Election
- A Rivers State House of Assembly candidate has been kidnapped, a family source confirmed on Tuesday morning, March 14
- The Accord Party candidate was kidnapped while driving in his car at Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt, on Monday night, March 13
- A few days before the March 18 election, the sad and shocking development raised fresh tension and severe concern among members of his family
Gunmen have kidnapped the Accord Party candidate for the Rivers State House of Assembly for the March 18 election, Chukwudi Ogbonna.
Ogbonna, who is representing Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni sin Local Government Area Constituency 2, was reportedly kidnapped while driving in his car at Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt on Monday night, March 13, when the shooters forced him to stop and whisked him away with his car.
Source: Facebook
What really happened, family speaks
The candidate’s cousin, Ifeaka Nwakiri, confirmed the incident to The PUNCH on Tuesday morning, March 14.
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He said,
“They took him with his Mercedes car. We have reported the matter at the Kala Police station.”
Nigerians react:
Nigerians took to the Facebook page of Legit.ng and reacted to the sad development.
WF D-naira wrote:
"Obiakpor local government people no dey change."
Callmeking wrote:
"Nawa o
"Make them just keep ham hungry for 2 days first."
Amb Kelly IE Rufus wrote:
"Release Chukwudi Ogbonna now !!!
Michael Lawrence wrote:
"Jobless gunmen "
2023 Election: Hoodlums attack residences of PDP chieftains in Rivers, details emerge
Barely 24 hours before the presidential and national elections in the country, residents in Rivers State woke up to the news of attacks on the two politicians’ residences by suspected assailants.
The Nigerian Guardian learned that hoodlums allegedly threw dynamite at the residence of an immediate past Commissioner of Water Resources, Dr Tamunosisi Jaja, in his house, to be specific.
According to the newspaper sources, one of the assailants was neutralised.
Tension in Rivers as explosion rocks local media house
Legit.ng earlier reported that a local media house in the Ozuoba area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, had been attacked with an explosive.
The media house, named Atlantic TV and Wish 99.5FM, is owned by Chinyere Igwe, a member of the house of representatives.
Confirming the attack, Igwe said the generator house was affected, while the police said a briefing on the attack would soon hold.
Source: Legit.ng
