Four suspects have been detained by Ebonyi State police in connection with the slaying of Mr. Peter Nweke, the PDP ward chairman in Ezza North Local Government Area.
On March 18, 2023, during the gubernatorial and state Assembly elections in Ezza North, Mr. Nweke was assassinated by assailants.
In a statement on Saturday, the state’s police spokesman, Onome Onovwakpoyeya, allegedly claimed that Leonard Nwali, a Labour Party candidate for the House of Assembly in the Ezza North state seat, had admitted to hiring assassins to assassinate Nweke.
She claims that “one Peter Nweke’m’, the PDP ward chairman in Ezza North, was killed by unidentified gunmen on the 18th of March 2023, during the gubernatorial/state House of Assembly elections.
“In response to the heinous conduct, Police Commissioner Faleye S. Olaleye ordered all police personnel under his charge to find all individuals involved for the murder.
“As a result, four people were detained in connection with the killing of Mr. Peter Nweke on March 28, 2023.
The first suspect, Leonard Kelechi Nwali, a Labour Party House of Assembly candidate from the Ezza North seat, admitted hiring the attackers who were intended to torture the late Peter Nweke but perished in the process.
He called one Akwasi’m’ of Nnachi, Umuezeoka, Ezza North L.G.A. who oversaw the torture that ultimately led to Mr. Peter Nweke’m’s murder because, in his words, the late Peter Nweke constituted a danger to his political ambitions.
“The second suspect, Onyebuchi Chita’m’ of the Nkomoro village, admitted bringing the murderers from Nkomoro into the Ogboji community where Peter Nweke was slain.
“The third suspect, Aloke Obinna’m’ of the Ogboji village, admitted to giving one Onyebuchi Chita his motorbike so he could flee after the event.
While Sampson Nweke, who identified Peter Nweke to the assassins, collaborated with Ifeanyi Nwokpuku, the fourth suspect from the Ogboji village in Ezza North.
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