Campaign director for the Rivers APC abducted and shot dead.

Chisom Lennard, the APC campaign coordinator in Rivers State’s Ahoada-West Local Government Area, was killed by gunmen hours after being kidnapped.

At Ibagwa polling unit 2 ward 10 in Ahoada West LGA, where voting for the gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections was taking place, Lennard was reportedly abducted by gunmen wearing police uniforms.

According to reports, the APC leader attempted to stop the gunmen from stealing poll equipment before being abducted.

The incidence was reported by Darlington Nwauju, the State APC Publicity Secretary.

Nwauju stated, “He was abducted from his polling unit during the voting process and taken away.

“Nobody knew where they took him to. It was later in the evening of Saturday that his body was discovered.

“He was APC LGA caretaker chairman and was a PhD student at the Rivers State University.”

Along the Ibueahi-Ubeta road in the Ahoada+West LGA of the state, late Lennard’s body was found covered in his own blood and covered in gunshot wounds.

During Rotimi Amaechi’s administration, the late APC leader served as a board member of the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Board and an estate surveyor.