The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that the Enugu East senatorial election which was scheduled to hold this Saturday will now be held on March 11 alongside the governorship polls.
This comes after INEC suspended the zone’s senatorial election over the death of Oyibo Chukwu, Labour Party’s candidate on Wednesday.
INEC chairperson, Mahmood Yakubu, announced the development on Friday during a media briefing at the national collation centre in Abuja.
Chukwu, a former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, was killed and set ablaze at Amechi-Awkunanaw in Enugu South Local Government Area on Wednesday after gunmen opened fire on his convoy 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.
Frank Nweke Jr, All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA governorship candidate in a Enugu, has condemned the killing of the Labour Party senatorial candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District, Mr Oyibo Chukwu. Reacting in a statement on Thursday, Nweke expressed shock and called on security operatives to intensify measures to forestall recurrence.
