The
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said in a statement that the body was
identified at the Agbor Police Station in Delta State by the Anambra
State Chairman of the party), Chief Amaechi Obidike, State Secretary
Barr Emeka Ibe, and the victim’s brother, Dr.Bufo Nwike.
The
statement noted that the family had negotiated and paid a ransom prior
to the discovery of the body, Bufo Nwike handling the negotiations and
arranging to pay to the kidnappers N5million at an undisclosed location
in Delta State.
That
ransom was in paid on April 5, but the kidnappers, after collecting the
money from the courier, cut off all further communications. The body
was discovered thereafter.
“We
are tremendously ashamed of the circumstances of his death and wish we
could now erase from history that a former Deputy Governor of a State in
Nigeria died in this manner,” the statement said.
The
party called on the security agencies, in view of the fact that they
did not succeed in tracking down the abductors of the former Deputy
Governor while he lived, to “rise and smash all obstacles on the way to
unearthing the abductors and killers of ACN’s rare gem, an embodiment of
peace and knowledge.”
This is brutish,shocking and heartbreaking.
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His 'kidnappers' shall not know any peace.
This is assasination for sure.
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