{"id":26068,"date":"2019-09-23T19:11:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=26068"},"modified":"2019-09-23T19:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:11:39","slug":"aftermath-of-tribunal-verdict-fear-grips-imo-pdp-chiefs-over-members-murder-kidnap-of-lga-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=26068","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath of Tribunal Verdict:  Fear Grips Imo PDP Chiefs Over\u00a0\u00a0Member\u2019s Murder, Kidnap of LGA Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=26069\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26069\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdp-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdp-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pdp-1-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\">Mixed feelings are trailing last Saturday\u2019s victory secured by the PDP Governorship candidate, Emeka Ihedioha at the tribunal as two of its members are casualties to gun men attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\">Barely 24 hours after Ihedioha\u2019s victory which threw thousands of the party\u2019s supporters into frenzy during the celebration, sad news later greeted the members when death came knocking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\">While a top staff of the Recovery Committee of the state government and strong PDP member, simply identified as Bruno was allegedly shot dead at the popular Cherubim Junction on Whetheral Road in the state capital,\u00a0the party&#8217;s Chairman for Owerri-West Local Government Area (LGA), Comrade Uzochukwu Azuatalam was abducted yesterday by unknown gunmen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\">The sad event occurred when Comrade Azuatalam was making his way back home after a political meeting in Ohii Owerri-West LGA. It was reported that his abductors trailed him from the said meeting and picked him up, after double-crossing his vehicle along the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\">Sun is yet to know if it was a case of assassination or kidnapping as his supposed abductors are yet to make a contact. His\u00a0whereabouts are also\u00a0unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\">\u00a0All efforts to reach the police public relations officer of the police\u00a0on this report have proved abortive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv4017583045ydpa339e9deMsoNoSpacing\">The worker in the Committee on Recovery of Movable Assets of Imo State Government was\u00a0shot dead on Sunday evening by an unknown gun man, around Cherubim Junction Ikenegbu Layout, Owerri. It is not yet clear who the perpetrators of the dastardly act are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed feelings are trailing last Saturday\u2019s victory secured by the PDP Governorship candidate, Emeka Ihedioha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26070,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions\/26070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}