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<h1>An uneasy calm now pervades Eha Alumona, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State as a strong supporter of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Chukwuemeka Ishienyi, was shot dead on Wednesday.</h1>

The deceased was said to have been shot dead while returning from a meeting allegedly organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Eha Uno Ward in Nsukka.

Ishienyi, 24, and the only son of his mother, a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the community learnt, was a strong supporter of the PDP before he joined the over 100 youths that decamped to APC a month ago.

However, the Enugu State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Ebere Amaraizu, said he had not been informed about the incident, adding: “I will find out”.

The journalists had earlier visited the Nigeria Police Divisional Headquarters, Umuabor Ehalumona, where they were referred to the PPRO for comment on the incident.

But the Chairman, Eha Uno Ward of APC, Mr Lawrence Alumona, told the two newsmen at the deceased compound that before his death, Ishienyi came to him about a month ago and informed him about how he and his friends were disenchanted with PDP and wanted to join APC.

“He came to me one day and said that they did not like what PDP was doing and that they want to switch over to APC,” he said.

According to the ward chairman, ever since the late Ishienyi and his group joined the APC, the deceased had been receiving death threats.

“They have been threatening me and warning me to be careful. Since then, I have not been sleeping in my community. I didn’t know that this could lead to death and now see what has happened,” Alumona lamented as he narrated what Ishienyi had told him.

Alumona said that one the day that he died, Ishienyi had told him that the PDP invited him for a meeting and he never returned from the meeting alive.

“The PDP invited him to know why he decamped and to persuade him to rejoin the party and when he was coming back, he was shot dead,” he alleged.

Another supporter of APC in the area, Mr Okwudili Ugwu, said that on the evening he was killed, the deceased was with him and they drank till 8 p.m. but only to hear in the morning on Wednesday that he was dead.

Ugwu said that the youth that took his dead body to the hospital were singing an ominous song that portends danger of a possible breakdown of law and order.

He said that his body was deposited at a local hospital at Umuabor, called Daughters of Divine Love (DDL) Hospital.

The aged grandmother of the slain youth, Mrs Veronica Ishienyi, narrated how the news of his death was broken to her.

“On Wednesday in the morning, some members of my church came to me and were asking me why I did not come for morning mass. I told them that I had pain in my legs and that was why I could not come.

“After some time, they told me without beating about the bush that Chukwuemeka was dead. I asked which Chukwuemeka and they said my grandson. I wept but I know that will not bring him back to life. Now his body is deposited in the hospital,” she lamented.

His older sister who came down from Enugu, Ifeanyi, said she was shocked to hear that her younger brother and the only brother was dead.

“At first, they told me that it was an accident but I later discovered that he was shot dead,” she said, noting that she never knew he was involved in active politics.

According to her, he was in Ghana at a time doing business and only came home recently.

A source close to the family disclosed that the deceased was supposed to travel outside Nigeria in March and that his Visa was ready for the travel before tragedy struck.

However, the PDP Ward Chairman for Eha Uno Ward, Austin Odo, said that he did not call Chukwuemeka for any meeting.

He claimed that there had been series of support group meetings going on here and there and that he might have attended one of the meetings before his death.

“I am aware of the incident but I did not call for any meeting. There has been series of meetings of party support groups.

“He may have attended one of them before the incident happened. He was one of our strong supporters before,” Odo told newsmen.

He explained that he was a tanker driver and that he was not around when the incident happened but heard about it when he returned.

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The deceased was said to have been shot dead while returning from a meeting allegedly organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Eha Uno Ward in Nsukka.

APC strong supporter shot dead in Nsukka

<h1>Mr Okey Ezirigwe, the spokesman to the governorship candidate the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu state, Sen. Ayogu Eze, has described as baseless the rumour that an Enugu High Court has barred the candidate from the March 2 poll.</h1>

Speaking to newsmen on Thursday in Enugu, Ezirigwe attributed the rumour to “the handiwork of an impostor.”

He alleged that the rumour was being peddled by an impostor, acting as an agent to other political parties that were plotting to stop all the APC candidates from taking part in the elections.

He said that the motive behind the rumour was to create the false impression of an internal wrangling in the party, “in order to confuse our supporters across the state.”

Ezirigwe expressed happiness that all the conspiracies and judicial attempts to stop the governorship candidate had remained fruitless.

He said, “The masses are urged to remain resolute and determined to sack non performers and continue to disregard such desperate politician.

“It is a futile attempt by enemies of plural democracy, who are scared of competitive elections, to deny the good people of credible leaders,” he said.

Ezirigwe said that in Eze, Enugu state had an opportunity to elect, for the first time since 1999, a governor who is truly prepared to lead the state on his personal merits.

He therefore urged the party supporters and all the good people of Enugu state to remain calm and focused during the polls.

“You should keep a date with destiny and vote for caring, capable and trustworthy candidates of our great party,” he said.

Speaking to newsmen on Thursday in Enugu, Ezirigwe attributed the rumour to “the handiwork of an impostor.”

2019: Senator Eze not barred from Enugu guber race, says aide

<h1>The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State has initiated a final presidential campaign road show to the grassroots in the Enugu East senatorial zone to drum support for President Muhammadu Buhari.</h1>

Sen. Ayogu Eze, embattled APC Enugu State governorship candidate, who led the road show in the senatorial zone on Wednesday, thanked the people of the zone for coming out en masse to support and participate in the campaign.

Eze said that the president remained poised to taking Nigeria to the next level adding that President Buhari loved the people of the South East.

The governorship candidate said that if Buhari was re-elected, he would do something profound for the Igbos.

He said that Buhari promised that in 2023, he was going to make a commitment to re-integrate Igbos in Nigeria’s enterprise.

“You noticed that there is massive ongoing rehabilitation of the Enugu expressways and right now concrete foundation and piling on the second Niger Bridge has been completed.

“It is no longer story that since the death of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, who was the most prominent Igbo man, the issue of his mausoleum has been rhetoric of politics from year to year but you can remember that it was commissioned on Jan. 24 when the president visited the zone,” he said.

Eze urged the people of the senatorial zone to vote for Buhari and the entire APC candidates in the national assembly to make his government smooth and more productive.

He enumerated some achievement he made when he was at the senate as empowering over 200 youth via employment adding that he brought the Radio Nigeria and the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) to Nsukka and Udi Local Government Areas respectively.

Eze said that he attracted several roads and bridges to the three senatorial zones of the state.

The APC state Chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye urged the people of Enugu East to vote for their senatorial candidates and other national assembly candidates for them to continue the good works they had been doing.

Nwoye said that the national assembly positions in Enugu East was rotational, urging the people in the zone to vote for the right person.

He urged them to vote for president Buhari and other APC candidates in the state on Feb. 16th and March 2 general elections.

In his remarks, the APC Senatorial Candidate for Enugu East, Chief Lawrence Eze said that the people of the district had spoken in one voice that they had no other option than to re-elect President Buhari come Saturday.

He commended the people of Enugu East for their commitment to ensure that they would vote for the APC all the way in their zone.

Eze said that he had done a lot for his people without being in power, adding that he had built several houses for the less privileged and had equally constructed roads for the zone.

He promised to do more if elected.

Sen. Ayogu Eze, embattled APC Enugu State governorship candidate, who led the road show in the senatorial zone on Wednesday, thanked the people of the zone for coming out en masse to support and participate in the campaign.

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