The Benue Police Command has confirmed the murder of Mr Tersoo Ahu, the Ward Chairman of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Gboko South by suspected hoodlums.
The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Catherine Anene, confirmed the incident in an interview with newsmen on Sunday in Markurdi.
Anene said that preliminary Investigation revealed that suspected hoodlums allegedly from a faction of the party in the council ward carried out the attack at the Party’s registration and revalidation training center.
The Command’s spokesperson said that the deceased and other members were at the venue of the training for the registration and revalidation exercise when the hoodlums who were mobilised , stormed the venue and attacked the deceased and others
According to her, one of the hoodlums, hit the deceased Chairman on the head with a wood making him to collapse. .He was rushed to the hospital where he was confirmed dead
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” The Youth who claimed to be a faction within the party, mobilised and attacked the deceased and others where they were conducting training for ward and polling unit officers for the party’s registration exercise.
” They claimed it was not the venue that they had agreed for the training of the officers.
” They came violently with stones,wood and started throwing stones,one of them,hit the chairman with a wood and he fell down.
” He was rushed to the hospital where he died ‘ She said
The PPRO further disclosed that several others sustained various degrees of injury during the attack adding that the attackers would be arrested and prosecuted.
