The lawmaker representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has narrated his encounter with gunmen in Anambra State.
This paper reported that Ubah’s convoy was ambushed along the Onitsha-Awka road, in Enugwu-Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of the state.
In a statement released on Sunday night, the spokesman for Senator Ubah, Kameh Ogbonna, said the senator managed to escape with his bulletproof car.
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He said:
“If not for the bulletproof jeep the senator was riding in, he would have been dead by now.”
The spokesman, however, revealed that the special aide to the lawmaker named Obum was killed in the attack.
“We were passing Enugwu Ukwu junction when they hit us from all sides and as I speak with you Obum, the special aide to the senator is dead.
About seven security operatives were hit by the gunmen’s bullet,” he again said.
The attack was a deadly one as it came from all sides.
Ogbonna added that about seven security operatives were shot by the gunmen.