{"id":20584,"date":"2023-02-23T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/23\/gunmen-murder-labour-party-senatorial-candidate-and-his-personal-assistant-in-enugu\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:30:23","slug":"gunmen-murder-labour-party-senatorial-candidate-and-his-personal-assistant-in-enugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/23\/gunmen-murder-labour-party-senatorial-candidate-and-his-personal-assistant-in-enugu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Murder Labour Party Senatorial Candidate And His Personal Assistant In Enugu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Oyibo Chukwu, a senatorial candidate for the Labour Party (LP), and his personal assistant were shot and killed. They were from Enugu East.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released early on Thursday, Daniel Ndukwu, spokesman for the Enugu Police Command, confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p>He said that on Wednesday, Chukwu\u2019s campaign car was attacked and set ablaze by thugs riding in a Hilux vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party\u2019s senatorial candidate for the Enugu East Senatorial District, Barr. Oyibo Chukwu (male), and his personal assistant (male), who were in the vehicle, were burned to death, according to the spokesman. They \u201cattacked and set ablaze the campaign vehicle of the Labour Party at Eke-Otu Amechi-Awkunanaw Enugu.<\/p>\n<p>At Eke, Agbani, Nkanu West LGA, the miscreants attempted to attack the convoy of the All Progressive Congress (APC) governorship candidate, but they were thwarted by security personnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several PDP members were also killed during the incident, and Uche Nnaji\u2019s convoy, who is running for governor of Enugu State in the All Progressive Congress (APC), was also hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Ammani, the commissioner of the Enugu State Police, attended the scene of the attack and immediately launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1e0ba623c27e46ab8d4539dde0f80662\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Channels TV<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OReporter (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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He said that on Wednesday, Chukwu\u2019s campaign car was attacked and set ablaze by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gunmen Murder Labour Party Senatorial Candidate And His Personal Assistant In Enugu - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/23\/gunmen-murder-labour-party-senatorial-candidate-and-his-personal-assistant-in-enugu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gunmen Murder Labour Party Senatorial Candidate And His Personal Assistant In Enugu - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oyibo Chukwu, a senatorial candidate for the Labour Party (LP), and his personal assistant were shot and killed. 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