By Charles Igbo
The insecurity in Imo State reached an unbelievable level in the morning of Sunday, May 30, when gunmen shot and killed Ahmed Gulak
While some say he was killed at the Imo Airport, others say he was killed on his way to the Airport.The daring gunmen not only killed him, but reportedly, dragged his body on the ground.
His body, sprawled on the ground, by a car, gave the impression he was fatally shot on the head as blood was seen searing like a river from his head. He wore a a pair of blue jeans trousers and a tee-shirt. His facial mask was hanging on his neck.
He was on his way back to Abuja.
An eyewitness described as sacrilegious, the way his body was dragged on the floor after he was killed.
Gulak was the Chairman of the All Progresssives Congress, APC. Governorship Election Primary in Imo State. He was the man who declared Governor Hope Uzodinma winner of the Primary. The declaration denied former Governor Okorocha’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, the APC ticket which pushed him to contest on the ticket of the AA, a party, allegedly, founded as a Plan B, and funded by Okorocha.
Okorocha had, repeatedly, held him responsible for his political fate in the State.
A grounded politician, Gulak, a lawyer, was a former Political Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, a former Senior Special Adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and a former Speaker of the Adamawa
House of Assembly.
He was, once, at the centre of the crisis that rocked the PDP when he declared himself the National Chairman of the Party.
He defected from the PDP to the APC in 2018
It is not known what his mission was to Imo State. But while some say he went on the invitation of some Northerners, others claim he went to visit Governor Uzodinma.
Many shocked Nigerians believe that whoever, or whichever group killed him knew his itenary, and either waited for him at the Airport, or followed him to the airport.
What is not known if it is confirmed that he was killed at the Airport, is how this brazen and daring murder succeeded within an environment which ordinarily ought to be very secured with the number of Security personnel all over the place.
Imo State, especially, Owerri, its capital,has been the epicenter of deadly attacks in recent times.
…More details, later
