About seven aides and policemen attached to the senator representing Anambra South, Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, have been killed when unknown gunmen suspected to be assassins, attacked the senator’s convoy at Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka council area of the state.
Reports say the incident happened when Senator Ubah was returning to his home town Nnewi when the incident happened at popular Nkwo Enugwu-Ukwu and that the Senator Ubah managed to escape death from the bullets of Assassin’s but his whereabouts is still unknown as at the time of filing this report.
Speaking to Odenigbo FM on the attack which happened Sunday night, the Media Assistant to Sen Ifeanyi Ubah, Mr Kameh Ogbonna said the senator was able to escape the terror because of the bullet proof Jeep he was riding in.
In the meantime, Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has condemned the attack by yet-to-be identified gun men on Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy, Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial Zone Sunday evening.
In a statement signed by his Press Secretary Christian Aburime, Governor Soludo said government is fully determined to wipe out every act of criminality in the State and reiterated that “this is the last ditched-effort of a sinking boat” by these criminal elements
He reassured that all security agencies are now on full alert to fish out the perpetrators of this heinous attack, who will be made to face the full wrath of the law.
