A chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of Ideato North local government area of Imo state, Mr. Sunny Ejiagwu, has been murdered by suspected assassins. The deceased was one of the 27 local government areas chairmen inaugurated on Monday by the new state chairman, Daniel Nwafor, after the state APC rescheduled election as ordered by the court.

The state commissioner of police, Dasuki Galandanchi, who confirmed the murder said that the corpse had been evacuated to a nearby mortuary.

According to the CP, the politician was assassinated by unknown assailants along the Akokwa road in the Ideato North LGA .

The CP said “the APC chairman in Ideato North has been murdered. I was at the scene of the crime and only came back. His corpse has been evacuated to a mortuary.

There is no preliminary suspicion but the investigator would find out. The blood of the innocent would expose them.”