Police Narrates How Former PDP National Chairman, Ahmed Gulak Was Murdered

Says Gulak Left His Hotel Room Without Informing Us
Says 6 Armed Bandits Kill Ahmed Gulak in Owerri

The Imo state Police command has narrated how the former factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmed Gulak was gruesomely murdered in Owerri, the state capital.

Bala Elkana, a Superintendent of Police and the Police Public Relations Officer, Imo command in a statement said the All Progressives Congress Chieftain was killed by armed men on his way to the airport to catch a flight after leaving his hotel.

The police spokesman also said that Gulak was killed on Sunday morning around 7 am and he never informed them nor sister security agents about his movement.

His murder might be politically motivated as the police spokesman said he was killed after he was identified by the assailants that intercepted the cab carrying him around Umueze Obiangwu in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area close to the Airport.

The statement reads:

On 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 an 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 cordone the area and arrest perpetrators.

Sp Bala Elkana
Police Public Relations Officer

For: Commisioner of Police, Imo State Police Command.