Crime
Gunmen kill APC campaign DG in Rivers on election day
Gunmen on Saturday killed the Director General of the Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship campaign organisation, Chisom Lenard, in his LGA, Ahoada West Local Government Area. The gunmen shot dead Chisom during the governorship and state house of assembly elections in the state.
The Police Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement acknowledged the incident, declaring that “the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Election duties in Rivers State Command, CP Echeng Echeng, has tasked operatives of the Command to deploy all necessary human and investigative assets to ensure that the killers of the Campaign Director-General for the All Progressives Congress in Ahoada West in Rivers State, Hon. Chisom Lenard, are brought to book.
“From information gathered, the Campaign DG was shot by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in the afternoon of Saturday 18th March 2023.
“The Commissioner of Police commiserates with the family of the bereaved and has promised to bring perpetrators of such heinous crime to justice.”
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