The APC governorship candidate in the forthcoming Edo State Governorship Election, Senator Monday Okpebholo has raised an alarm towards assassination attempt to his life.
Senator Monday Okpebholo who represent Edo Central Senatorial District under the All Progressive Congress (APC) made this known today, in a press statement signed by his media and communication aide, Godswill Inegbe.
The Senator alleged that the Edo State government planned to assassinate him today, outside the premises of Benin Airport while on his way to meet up with his scheduled grassroot campaigns.
He said, his motorcade was ambushed by members of the Edo State Security Network and thugs allegedly commanded by one Francis Inegbeniki, and sponsored by the Edo state government leading to the dead of one of his security detail and several others in his entourage sustaining different degree of injuries.
Describing the attack as unprovoked, he said the incidence was a plot to assasinate him, as well as an attack on the institution of the National Assembly, and Federal Government of Nigeria at large.
The Senator called on President Tinubu and the Inspector General of Police to ensure that the murderers of the late Inspector Akor Onu are made to face justice ”The brutal murder of Inspector Akor Onu is one death too many in the quest for inordinate political power by dictator.
”Therefore, we wish to use this medium to call on the Inspector General of Police to ensure that the murderers of Inspector Akor Onu are made to face justice. We humbly call upon Mr President, His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to save the lives of Edo people from the hands of the tyrant governing Edo State.”