The governor said the bandits ran into the INEC staff after discovering that the Okigwe prison was fortified.
“We cannot allow the killing of innocent citizens and the activities of non-state actors in the form of criminals…to overtake the political space.”
I am appealing to those…attacking police stations and killing people to fear God and to stop.”
The president had earlier pledged to review the security situation in the South-East.
The governor said it was “shameful that these criminals deployed their malicious attack on an innocent man”.
“I don’t understand the anxiety and the propaganda of trying to force the president or blackmail the president signing the electoral act.”
The items were distributed at the ‘Hope for Imo’ Valentine Concert held in Owerri on Saturday.
“The IPOB gentlemen are our young men. They are our children who believe the Nigerian nation does not like them.”
The market will be completed in December, an official said.
The speaker commended the governor for supporting families of slain security officers “both morally and financially.”
