Gulak: Uzodimma Disputes Police Allegation Against IPOB

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State on Monday countered the police assertion that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB was responsible for the Sunday killing of former presidential aide, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak.

The Imo State governor in a rebuff of the police claim said that the killing which he said left him devastated had a political motif. He, however, did not say more than that.

Addressing a press conference in Owerri, the state capital, on Monday, Uzodimma said he could not go to church when he heard about Gulak’s assassination.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Gulak was chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship primary which returned Uzodimma as the Imo State governorship candidate in controversial circumstances. A rival faction of the panel had returned Uche Nwosu, the son-in-law of the governor at that time, Rochas Okorocha.

Okorocha and Gulak subsequently had a raucous public spat after the latter claimed that the governor offered him a $2 million bribe to turn the result of the primary in favour of Nwosu.

Reacting to the death of Gulak, Uzodimma while faulting police reports blaming IPOB said:

“Alhaji Ahmed Gulak was in Imo State for a national assignment. He came to Owerri with the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendment. Being a humble man, he chose to travel incognito according to his friend who was with him. Someone must have trailed him from the hotel to the airport. That is exactly why his gruesome murder appears to be a clear case of political assassination,” he said.

“The brutal and callous assassination of Alhaji Ahmed Gulak yesterday, Sunday, May 30th, 2021 on his way to the Sam Mbakwe Cargo Airport, is painful because he did not deserve to die that way.”

“The death of this compatriot is a personal loss to me because he was an invaluable friend and brother whose sense of justice, fairness and uprightness endeared him to me. I was shocked to my marrows when the sad news of his callous murder was broken to me.

“I was getting ready to go to church when the sad news came and I could not attend the service again. It was simply one of the most devastating news I have heard in my life and I am yet to recover from the shock. It remains a puzzle to me why anyone would want to murder him in this gruesome and vicious manner,” Uzodimma said of the killing of Gulak even as he cleared IPOB, a group he had in the past blamed for most of the violence in the state.

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