Some unknown gunmen in military uniforms have gruesomely murdered and beheaded an APC former Councillor in the Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State.
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Allain John-Morrison, who is a former Councillor of Ward 1, in the Abua/Odua Local Government Area of Rivers State, has been ambushed and killed by some gunmen in military uniforms while heading towards the Ahoada area on a motorcycle on Tuesday.
According to
Punch, the killers had trailed the victim to a lonely place around Okobuo village before beheading him and spared the motorcyclist that carried him.
Online reports revealed that the victim was killed while returning from Port Harcourt where an Appeal Court had ruled in favour of his party in a case involving 22 sacked local government chairmen.
A former Caretaker Committee Chairman of Abua/Odua LGA, Gift Igoma, who confirmed the incident to correspondents, said the victim was killed around 6:00am along Abua/Ahoada Road by suspected assassins.
Igoma said the okada rider who reported the incident to the police and escaped by a whisker, told people at the police station that the killers were three, adding that they were in military uniform.
He described the killing as horrific, calling on security agencies to investigate the murder.