By NewsBits
Gunmen have killed a former House of Representatives candidate from Anambra State, Jude Oguejiofor.
Mr Oguejiofor hailed from Orsumoghu in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra but lived in Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state. Mr Oguejiofor, also a lawyer, contested for the Ihiala Federal Constituency House of Representatives seat in the 2023 general elections under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Sources said the politician was abducted around 1 a.m. last week, alongside his brother by some gunmen. The incident happened in the Orsumoghu Community where they had gone to see their aged parents. But the gunmen later released his brother unhurt.
The brother is a medical doctor who recently came back from a foreign country. A family source who does not want to be named, said that the gunmen accused Mr Oguejiofor of writing petitions against them and their activities in the community.
“They said he had been writing petitions against them to the Anambra State Government,” the source said. Meanwhile, the source said Mr Oguejiofor’s father fainted and died on Thursday when the gunmen contacted the family and informed them that they had killed the politician.
A lawyer, Chidi Ibekaeme, said the lawyer could have avoided his community given that he had been vocal about the rising attacks by gunmen in the area. “His (Oguejiofor’s) community is very volatile. The community is virtually run down and taken over by these criminals who say they are agitating for freedom,” he said.
When contacted, the police spokesperson in Anambra State, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga said he had no information on the incident.
