{"id":32368,"date":"2021-03-31T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=32368"},"modified":"2021-03-31T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T22:00:26","slug":"gunmen-attack-soludo-kill-three-orderlies-but-he-is-safe-says-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=32368","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen attack Soludo, kill three orderlies; but he is safe, says brother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is safe after gunmen on Wednesday attacked an event he was at, killing his three orderlies.<br \/><br \/>A brother of the gubernatorial aspirant told <strong>Everyday.ng<\/strong> that he was safe and unhurt.<br \/><br \/>According to him, when the gunshots began ringing out, many were not initially perturbed thing it was a way of hailing him for a brilliant speech he was rounding up.<br \/><br \/>Stampede, however, set in when the gunmen came into the hall shooting and aiming at Soludo&#8217;s orderlies and picking up their weapons.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;I can tell you he is safe because I have been in touch with him,&#8221; he said last night.<br \/><br \/>According to The Punch, the incident happened in Soludo\u2019s home town in Isiofia in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State.<br \/><br \/>An eyewitness said, \u201cGunmen disrupted an interactive session between Isuofia youths and Soludo at the town\u2019s civic centre. Three policemen were reportedly shot dead in the meeting.\u201d<br \/><br \/>A media aide to Soludo, who pleaded not to be identified, also confirmed the incident.<br \/><br \/>He said, \u201cI can\u2019t confirm the whereabouts of Professor Soludo. There was a stampede, I don\u2019t know where Soludo is now.<br \/><br \/>\u201cI only learnt that the state Commissioner for Public Utilities, Emeka Ezenwanne, was taken away but I have not heard about the whereabouts of Soludo.\u201d<br \/><br \/>When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ikenga Tochukwu, also confirmed the incident.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe incident happened but as of now (8.15pm) I\u2019m still gathering information about the incident,\u201d he told\u00a0The PUNCH.<br \/><br \/>Soludo, of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, is a frontline aspirant in the November 6 governorship poll in the state.<br \/><br \/>\u25aa\ufe0e Additional reports by The Punch<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is safe after gunmen on Wednesday attacked an event he was at, killing his three orderlies. A brother of the gubernatorial aspirant told Everyday.ng that he was safe and unhurt. According to him, when the gunshots began ringing out, many were not initially perturbed thing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[390,3161,3162],"class_list":["post-32368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-politics","tag-attack","tag-safe","tag-soludo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368","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=32368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}