The ongoing political killings in Imo State continued on Wednesday as gunmen killed the ward chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Umuchoke ward in Okwe in the Onuimo Local Government of Imo State, Christian Ihim late Tuesday.
The Network gathered that the gunmen who shot sporadically into the air to scare away the villagers also abducted five other chieftains of the party in the community.
It was further gathered that the rampaging gunmen also killed a female chieftain of the party identified as Onyinyechi Egenti at a neighboring community, Okwelle.
Sources say that the murdered chairman was a former aide of a former national Organising Secretary of APC, Emma Ibediro.
Gunmen had beheaded the Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Ohizu who was kidnapped on Friday.
The gunmen perpetrated the grisely murder of the Council Chairman after the deceased family had paid N6m ramson to the abductors
The council boss was kidnapped alongside two others on Friday last week after his home at Imoko community in Arondizuogu area of the LGA was razed.
He was reportedly shot before he was whisked away by his abductors.
Videos of his beheading surfaced online on Sunday evening.
Two others who were with him during the time of the attack in the early hours of Friday were also kidnapped.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the Police in the state, Henry Okoye, said that investigation was ongoing.
This is coming barely a week after the home of the spokesperson of Coalition of United Political Parties, Ugochinyere Imo, was attacked at Akokwa community in the Ideato North LGA, with three persons killed and about 33 vehicles razed.
On Tuesday, Governor Hope Uzodinma who condemned the grisely murder of Ohizu, the Ideato North Local Government Area Sole Administrator, described the killings as political motivated.
His directive to security operatives to find those who beheaded Ohizu had barely yielded result before the killers responded with another sickening act of murder.
“The chilling assassination of Mr. Ohizu in cold blood is as benumbing as it is callous.
“This killing falls in line with the targeting of members of the ruling APC, government officials, and their friends.
“Those previously murdered in cold blood include Orlu APC LGA woman leader, Jenny Rachael Okonkwo (Iron Lady); Nze Chidi Ejiaka; Barr. Darlington Odume; Nze Nwachukwu Igboayaka; Mrs. Helen Nnakwe; Collins Okey Agah, Chukwudi Dimagwu; Eddy Ofuefule; all APC chieftains from Orlu, and many others as well as Emma Mazi, former IMC chairman of Oguta LGA.” He said in a statement by his Commissioner for Information, Declan Emelumba.
