The pre-election violence that started a couple of weeks ago in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State has claimed an aide of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
This is happening in spite of sustained military and police patrols in the volatile area where no fewer than 13 lives had been lost to politics-related killings in the last two weeks.
The latest casualty is the Special Assistant to Governor Okowa on Youth Development, identified as Mr Lawrence Ngozi Akpomiemie.
He was allegedly shot dead by yet-to-be-identified gunmen on Friday night, a few hours to the botched Saturday presidential and national assembly poll at Ekpan.
The killing of Akpomiemie, fondly called “Ngozi” reportedly led to heavy shelling from youths in Ekpan as residents have to keep indoor in the perennially volatile area.
TribuneOnline gathered that Ngozi was ambushed by his killers while returning from an outing with his girlfriend on Friday night, but it could not be ascertained if his girlfriend was also killed.
Some sources said the assailants made away with huge sums of money found in his possession.
They claimed the money was for ‘mobilizations’ ahead of today’s botched poll.
It could, however, not be ascertained whether the attackers trailed him over the money in his possession.
The assailants, witnesses averred, pumped pellets on his head and chest and ensured he was dead before they abandoned his lifeless body and fled with the unspecified money.
Newly appointed Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Chuks Orisewezie, when contacted by TribuneOnline on Saturday morning, could not confirm the killing, saying he was yet to be briefed on the incident.
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