Labour Party chieftain killed the PDP Ward Chairman in Ebonyi.
Ebonyi State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a Labour Party House of Assembly aspirant for Ezza North Constituency, Leonard Kelechi Nwali and three others in connection with the killing of one Peter Nweke.
Nweke, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, was tortured to death by suspected political thugs during the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections in Ebonyi State.
Disclosing the arrest in statement issued on Friday in Abakaliki, the State capital, the Command’s Spokesperson, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, revealed that all the suspects had confessed to the crime during an interrogation.
He gave the names of other suspects as Ifeanyi Nwokpuku, Onyebuchi Chita and Aloke Obinna who were all from the same Council area.
According to the statement, the Labour Party aspirant, upon interrogation told police that he hired the other three suspects who were meant to torture the late Nweke.
The PDP ward chairman was killed at Umuezeokaoha community, in the Ezza North Local Government Area of the state while working as his party’s agent in the area.
The state police command, in a statement signed by its spokesperson, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, said the suspects confessed to the crime.
The statement read in part, “During the interrogation of the suspects, the first suspect, Leonard Kelechi Nwali, a Labour Party House of Assembly aspirant, Ezza North Constituency, confessed to hiring the assailants who were meant to torture the late Peter Nweke. However, he died in the process. According to him, the late Peter Nweke posed a threat to his political ambition, so he contacted one Akwasi of Umuezeoka, in Ezza North LGA, who spearheaded the torture that eventually resulted in the death of Mr Peter Nweke.
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