A former presidential aide, Ahmed Gulak, has been shot dead in Imo State.
He was ambushed while on his away to Sam Mbakwe International Cargo airport.
According sources, the motorcade of the deceased politician was attacked on Sunday morning at a place called Obiagwa, close to the Airport.
The Imo State Police Command has confirmed the development, saying that Gulak travelled to the Owerri airport without security escort before he was ambushed and killed by unknown gunmen.
Below is the full statement:
IMO STATE POLICE COMMAND
30 MAY 2021
MURDER OF AHMED GULAK BY ARMED BANDITS
On the 30/5/2021, at about 07:20hrs, armed bandits intercepted and attacked a Toyota Camry cab carrying Ahmed Gulak and two others who were on their way to Sam Mbakwe Airport to catch a flight.
Ahmed Gulak left his room at Protea Hotel without informing the Police nor sister agencies in view of the fragile security situation in the South East and Imo in particular. He left without any security escorts and while the cab driver took irregular route to the airport, six armed bandits who rode in a Toyota Sienna intercepted, identified and shot at Ahmed Gulak at around Umueze Obiangwu in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area close to the Airport.
The Commissioner of Police Imo CP Abutu Yaro, fdc has directed a discreet investigation into the matter as Tactical and Special forces have been deployed to cordon off the area and arrest perpetrators.
Sp Bala Elkana
Police Public Relations Officer
For: Commissioner of Police ,Imo State Police Command.
It will be recalled that Gulak once declared himself as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the party’s leadership crisis in January 2016.
Gulak was chairman of the APC committee that conducted the primaries for Imo governorship election.
He had been declared missing after arriving in the state to supervise the exercise in October 2018.
He later said he was “kidnapped” alongside members of the panel, and that he was offered $2 million to influence the outcome of the primaries.
He had also alleged that Rochas Okorocha, then-governor of Imo state, forced members of the electoral panel to declare Uche Nwosu, his favourite candidate, as the winner of the primary.
The APC national working committee (NWC) eventually cancelled the exercise after Nwosu was announced the winner.
Jonathan sacked him as his special adviser on political matters in April 2014.
No reason was given for his sack but he was alleged to be meddling in the affairs of some PDP states.
At the time, he had a running battle with Godswill Akpabio, then-governor of Akwa Ibom state and chairman of PDP Governors Forum.
Few days after he was dismissed from office, he resigned as the national coordinator of the Goodluck Support Group (GSG).
About four years later, in February 2018, he defected from the PDP to the APC, citing “impunity” and “injustice” in the former as the reason for his departure.
“We have left the PDP with its entire structures in the state (Adamawa) to join the APC, so the PDP is destroyed and buried. We have also converted the party secretariat to (that of) APC,” he had said.
Meanwhile a gory video clip of Gulak’s body lying in a pool of blood is now circulating in the social media.
