Gunmen Attcked APC Chairman’s House

Identified gunmen early yesterday invaded the Abuja residence of the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, a situation which compelled him to be absent at the commissioning of the party’s campaign headquarters and inauguration of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

The director-general of the PCC and Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, made this disclosure during yesterday’s event, where he revealed that the attackers tormented Oyegun’s family members.

“I start this speech today on a sad note; our chairman is not here because armed robbers attacked him last night. They broke into his house and thoroughly tormented his family.

“I had to break the news because we were supposed to be protected by the federal government of Nigeria, and if Abuja is no longer safe, only God knows where else will be safe.

“If the APC chairman could be robbed like this in his house in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, what is the hope of the common man under this administration?”

Meanwhile, in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by the APC national publicity secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said that while it hopes that a police investigation will unravel what happened, it nevertheless asserted that the attackers were either robbers or assassins.

The party further revealed that while its national chairman was away attending a meeting in Abuja when the invaders struck, his wife who was at home was left deeply traumatized.

‘’The facts of the raid as available so far point to a sinister motive. For example, only Chief Oyegun’s room was ransacked in the whole house. Common sense dictates that if the invaders were robbers,

they would have ransacked the whole house in search of money and other valuables which they might have believed were in the residence.

‘’The invaders, two burly men, removed the window anti-burglar bars to gain access to the residence from the back, and then made straight for the bedroom of our national chairman. Police security was in place at the residence when the incident happened,’’ APC said.

The party said while it did not know who was behind the raid, it is worth noting that the “angry rhetoric and vitriolic personality attacks” that have been directed at the opposition by the top leadership of the ruling PDP and their spokesmen have heightened tension and put the lives of opposition politicians at risk ahead of the forthcoming elections.” (Leadership)