Police lay siege for killers of LP senatorial candidate in Enugu

The Enugu State Police Commissioner, Ahmed Ammani, has ordered the immediate arrest of the killers of the Enugu East senatorial candidate of the Labour Party for Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.

Recall, the Labour Party Senatorial candidate, Oyibo Chukwu, who was the former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, was attacked and killed with his supporters which their bodies were set ablaze in the vehicle by gunmen who operated in a Hilux van in Eke-Otu.

While reacting in a statement after visiting the scene of attack at Ebony Paint Road and Eke-Otu both in Amechi-Awkunanaw, Enugu South Local Government Area, on Thursday, the State commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, who condemned the killings, described it as unacceptable in a modern democracy.

In the statement issued by the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, the commissioner attributed the killings to have been perpetrated by members of the IPOB/ESN.