{"id":15998,"date":"2019-03-10T09:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15998"},"modified":"2019-03-10T09:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:07:43","slug":"how-apc-supporter-was-shot-dead-in-my-residence-by-senator-ayogu-eze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15998","title":{"rendered":"How APC supporter was shot dead in my residence, by Senator Ayogu Eze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Clinton Umeh<\/strong>, Media Aide to Sen. Ayogu Eze<br \/>\nThe attention of the Sen. Ayogu Eze Governorship Campaign Organisation has been drawn to false stories making the rounds that an observer was shot in our principal\u2019s premises while he was in the village for the governorship and state assembly elections.<br \/>\nThe true story is that Sen. Eze\u2019s residence was stormed by two vehicles with Enugu State Government registration numbers, claiming to be carrying election observers. While one of them drove inside the senator\u2019s compound, the other stayed outside the gate.<br \/>\nThe vehicles had their numbers masked, rousing the curiosity of our supporters who unmasked them only to reveal the Enugu State number plates.<br \/>\nThe crowd numbering nearly 10,000 people saw this as unwarranted intrusion, especially as they saw the face cap of the PDP governorship candidate for the election in one of the vehicles and sought to quiz the occupants of the vehicles on their mission.<br \/>\nThe atmosphere expectedly turned rowdy suddenly, forcing one of the police officers in the premises to shoot into the air to disperse the crowd. His hand obviously slipped, according to eyewitnesses, and he shot one of the All Progressives Congress, APC, supporters, who passed on while being conveyed to the hospital.<br \/>\nThe affected police officer has also been handed over to law enforcement agents who are currently handling the matter in accordance with their service rules.<br \/>\nThe so-called observers whose identities were questionable were released to the Igbo Eze North Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Samuel Ngwu Attah, following the intervention of Sen. Eze immediately his attention was drawn to the incident.<br \/>\nNo observer was killed in our principal\u2019s house or anywhere near it. What is circulating in the social media is pure fake news, obviously fabricated by those who sent the team to the house of the governorship candidate.<br \/>\nWe see this fake story as part of the coordinated assault on the democratic rights of our principal, who has remained calm in the face of severe provocation.<br \/>\nWe hope that with this clarification the authors of this willfully spurn tale by the moonlight will see the need to leave Sen. Eze alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By Clinton Umeh, Media Aide to Sen. Ayogu Eze The attention of the Sen. Ayogu Eze Governorship Campaign Organisation has been drawn to false stories making the rounds that an observer was shot in our principal\u2019s premises while he was in the village for the governorship and state assembly elections. The true story is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}