Murder of Enugu APC chieftains: Families suspect political assassination, seek justice

Family of the late youth leader of the Enugu State Chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Kelvin Ezeoha, at the weekend, described his murder as “pure case of political assassination”, asking law enforcement agencies to fish out perpetrators of the act

Ezeoha and another member of the party, Chidera Ogaba, were murdered in cold blood, last Tuesday, by yet to be identified gunmen who invaded a reconciliation meeting of APC at ward three Obeagu Amechi in Enugu South Council area of the state.

Widow of the late APC Chieftain, Mrs. Chidimma Lilian Ezeoha said she was very convinced that the killing of her husband was politically motivated.

She told a delegation of the party led by former State Chairman, Dr Ben Nwoye, who had come to sympathise with her that her husband was lured by a factional local government Chairman of APC in Enugu South Council to the meeting that took his life, stressing that the party official kept calling her husband repeatedly on phone to come to their meeting venue that black Tuesday.

According to the 46-year-old widow and mother of two, who is also heavy with a child, “my late husband was preparing to attend a family meeting that morning when the said Mike Ogbonna came to our house with two other people after putting numerous calls across to his phone and my husband took them to the sitting room where they engaged in a lengthy discussion before they left.”

Mrs. Ezeoha added, however, that she has presented the matter to God and called on the police and Enugu State government to do everything within their powers to ensure that perpetrators of the barbaric act are brought to justice.

The Widow said she was yet to recover from the shock of the incident, stressing: “This has shattered my life and that of my two little children and the unborn baby.”

She added: “I have handed the matter over to God and at the same time calling on the government of Enugu State and police to make sure that the perpetrators do not go unpunished”

Also speaking, the eldest man in the family, Evangelist Wilson Ogbe, stated that going by the manner their late brother was allegedly lured to the meeting, they did not need a prophet to tell them that his killing was politically motivated.