The Independent National Electoral Commission has stated that the Enugu East senatorial election, which was supposed to take place this Saturday, would now take place on March 11 alongside the governorship elections.
This comes after INEC halted the zone’s senatorial election on Wednesday due to the death of Labour Party candidate Oyibo Chukwu.
The development was reported by INEC chairperson Mahmood Yakubu on Friday at a media briefing at the national collation headquarters in Abuja.
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According to ANAEDOONLINE.NG, Chukwu, a former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, was assassinated and set ablaze on Wednesday at Amechi-Awkunanaw in Enugu South Local Government Area when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle, killing him and his personal assistant.
According to the Enugu State Police command, the gunmen who operated in a Hilux vehicle, attacked and set ablaze the campaign vehicle of the Labour Party senatorial, burning to death the party’s senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District and his personal assistant who was with him in the vehicle.
The Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, has since ordered a manhunt for the killers of the Enugu East senatorial candidate.
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