Edo: Police Escort Dead, APC Candidate, Okpebholo In Hosptial After Gun Attack

The All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo on Thursday afternoon suffered an attack from those he claimed to be agents of the Edo State government leaving him hospitalised and one of his police escorts dead.

Two other policemen attached to him were also wounded by what the APC governorshp campaign described as gun shots.

The APC claimed that the attack on Okpebholo and his convoy happened along Airport Road in Benin-City on the candidate’s arrival in the capital city.

The Edo State Government is yet to respond to the development.

A statement issued by the APC Campaign read thus

This afternoon, the motorcade of Senator Monday Okpebholo, the APC governorship candidate, was brutally attacked on his way from Benin Airport by members of Edo State Security Network and Edo state government sponsored thugs allegedly led by Francis Inegbeniki.

During the unprovoked brutal attack, three mobile policemen attached to the security detail of Senator Okpebholo were injured with bullets wound, while one of the policemen has been declared dead!

Senator Monday Okpebholo is at this moment admitted in an undisclosed hospital in Benin receiving medical attention, and other members of his entourage who were victims of the brutal attack are in various hospitals in Benin City.

E-Signed:

Godswill Inegbe

Legislative Aide to Senator Monday Okpebholo

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