Ally to the installed Imo State Governor and Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Gulak, has been shot dead by gunmen in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
The former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was reportedly shot dead by gunmen while returning to Abuja from Owerri.
It would be recalled that Gulak who was chairman of the APC committee that conducted the primaries for Imo governorship election, once declared himself as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the party’s leadership crisis in January 2016.
He also worked to see the installation of Hope Uzodinma as Governor of Imo State. He had been declared missing after arriving in the state to supervise the exercise in October 2018.
Resurfacing later, he alleged to have been kidnapped alongside other members of the panel, and that he was offered $2 million to influence the outcome of the primaries.
He had also alleged that former Imo governor, Rochas Okorocha, forced members of the electoral panel to declare Uche Nwosu, his favourite candidate, as the winner of the primary.
He was axed from the PDP in 2014 when Jonathan sacked him as his special adviser on political matters in April 2014 for meddling in the affairs of some PDP states.