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Assassins murder ex-chairman of Bayelsa PDP

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Assassins murder ex-chairman of Bayelsa PDP

Yet to be identified assassins in the early hours of Wednesday murdered a former acting chairman, Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Christopher Hobobo.

Hobobo, who resides on PDP Road, Yenagoa, the state capital and hailed from Agbere town in Sagbama Local Government Area of the state, was reportedly stabbed to death by his assailants.

It was learnt that the assassins pulled down the gate of the deceased to gain entrance into his sitting room, where he was brutally stabbed several times in the chest.

The killers were said to have refrained from using guns and ensured that he was dead from the stab wounds to avoid attracting the attention of his neighbours.

Police were invited by neighbours of the deceased at about 7:am after they discovered the gory incident.

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A team of policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer, Ekeki Division, later arrived and took Hobobo’a corpse to the morgue at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa.

The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Amba Asuquo, who confirmed the incident, assured the family members that the police would fish out the perpetrators of the crime.

The assassination of Hobobo is coming on the heels of a similar assassination of a Yenagoa-based broadcast journalist, Mr. Famous Giobaro.

 

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