Aliu Mambara
The elected Chairman of Aboh-Mbaise LGA of Imo State, Prince Chidi Nwaturuocha has allegedly been shot by hoodlums suspected to be acting on the instructions of the State Government.
According to a Facebook post by one of his friends, Uche Eziri, Prince Nwaturuocha’s attackers had allegedly demanded that he surrenders his official JAC pickup van to the newly appointed but contentious LGA interim management committee, but the LGA chairman explained that they had fully paid for the truck and now owns it.
Nwaturuocha who is the elected LGA chairman of the same LGA as the current governor of Imo State, Chief Emeka Ihedioha was said to have been beaten black and blue and shot by the hoodlums for refusing to surrender his vehicle.
It may be recalled that the 27 elected LGA chairmen and the 645 councillors are in court to challenge their illegal suspension by the Imo State governor, Chief Emeka Ihedioha. They contend that a governor lacks the Constitutional powers to sack elected executive chairmen, going by subsisting Supreme Court rulings and by recent resolutions of the National Assembly.
Observers are worried that the governor is setting dangerous precedents and laying foundations for crisis in the State, with his his seeming determination to decimate opposition elements in the State.
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