Imo: Gunmen Dare Governor Uzodinma, Strike At His Backyard

By Charles Igbo

Gunmen, on Monday, took their unexplainable battle to the backyard of Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma.

They struck at a political rally organized by the All Progressives Congress, APC, at Omuma, Oru Local Government Area, the Governor’s community, and LGA.

The Governor is of the APC. Mercifully, he was not at the rally. Otherwise, with the number of Security men, and the caliber of weapons and other equipment that go with him, including armored vehicles, perhaps, Imo could have witnessed rivers of blood.

Eye witnesses said the rally had just started when the gunmen invaded the venue  in five hilux vans, bearing gas cylinders and sophisticated weapons.

As they screeched to a halt, they announced their presence with volleys of bullets which rent the air. Everybody ran helter-skelter to safety.

The gunmen then began a destruction of the chairs and tables and mounted canopies and loud speakers.

Miraculously, there was no fatality.

The insecurity in Imo State, thought to be political by not a few Imo people, has escalated in the past one month with killings, burning of private and public buildings and, properties, and at least, one beheading of an APC political chieftain.

There have been threats by gunmen that the General Elections will not hold in the South-east. As it is, a number of people are already scared.

On a number of times, Governor Uzodinma, who believes the insecurity in his State is political, had threatened to expose those behind it. He has not been able to do so.

There is no Police statement yet on the Omuma incident.