The All Progressives Congress Campaign Coordinator in Ahoada-West Local Government Area of Rivers State, Chisom Lennard, has been shot dead by gunmen who kidnapped him during the voting process in the Governorship and House of Assembly election on Saturday.
Lennard, who was said to be PhD student at Rivers State University after tried to stop gunmen dressed in police uniforms who were caring away the ballot boxes at Ibagwa polling unit 2 ward 10 in Ahoada West LGA.
The State APC Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju, confirmed the incident to our correspondent.
Nwauju stated, “He was abducted from his polling unit during the voting process and taken away.
“Nobody knew where they took him to. It was later in the evening of Saturday that his body was discovered.
Late Lennard’s body was riddled with bullets in a pool of his own blood along the Ibueahi-Ubeta road in Ahoada+West LGA of the state.
The late APC chieftain was an estate surveyor and a former board member of the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority during the tenure of Rotimi Amaechi.
