A member of the Legislative Assembly of the Akuku-Toru Local Government of Rivers State, Sotonye Melford Georgewill, was on Sunday night stabbed to death in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
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While presenting the state of the nation to the lawmakers at the Rivers State House of Assembly, Port Harcourt, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, urged the people of the state to be calm and never to take the law into their hands.
Describing the murder of the All Progressives Congress (APC) councillor, who represented Ward 2, as “very sad and shocking,” Amaechi said, the state government would await the outcome of police investigation, before deciding on the next line of action.
Daily Times gathered that the councillor, who was married with two children, was murdered in front of his grandfather’s residence, along Accra Street, near the Lagos Bus Stop in the old Port Harcourt Township, popularly called Town about 9:45 pm.
It was also gathered that Georgewill came to the front of the house to attend to someone who earlier called him through the telephone and indicated that he was waiting for him outside.
On getting to the car that was waiting in front of the house, the witnesses stated that two men came out of the vehicle, one of who stabbed the councillor on the chest. He fell to the ground, while the murderers escaped, shooting into the air in the thickly-populated neighbourhood.
Shortly after the killing, some policemen in a white Toyota patrol van took away the body of Georgewill.
Rivers Police Spokesman Muhammad Ahmad said he was indisposed and not able to speak.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers State chapter, which claimed that the murdered councillor was a member of the party, however, warned against the continued threats to the lives of its members across the state.
The Rivers PDP said: “Hon. Sotonye Bobmanuel, a serving councillor in Akuku-Toru LGA and a member of the PDP, was assassinated a few days after the kidnap of three stalwarts of the party, who are still being held captive.”
The Special Adviser on Media to the Rivers Chairman of the PDP, Mr. Jerry Needam, alleged that the councillor’s murder was nothing short of a calculated plot by political opponents to provoke the party’s members and ignite crisis in the state.
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