Former governorship candidate of the APGA in Abia State, Dr Alex Otti
Emmanuel Ugwu in Umuahia
Former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA) in Abia State, Dr Alex Otti Friday said that unknown gunmen
invaded his Abuja guest house in the early hours of the day, apparently
to assassinate him.
Alex Otti
Briefing journalists at his campaign office in Umuahia over the unsavoury incident, the former bank boss said he escaped the assassin's bullet by 24 hours but a policeman on guard duty was shot dead.
He said that in the last seven days he had been staying at the guest house located at Maitama area of Abuja and only left on Thursday for Abia State in order to attend the tribunal sitting in Umuahia. Otti is at the tribunal challenging the outcome of the April 2015 gubernatorial poll in Abia.
According to him, the invading gunmen struck at about 2am on Friday thinking he was still around, adding that what could have been fate was left for the imagination,
"In the early hours of this morning (Friday) I got information that
yet-to- be identified people invaded my guest house in Abuja through the
back fence, cut the wire mesh and scaled through the fence and made
through to where I stay.
"One of the policemen that guard the place was shot dead and the body
has been deposited in the mortuary, if I had spent the day yesterday
there, maybe it would have been a different story now,” he lamented.
While pointing out that he was not suspecting anyone or group, Otti
recalled that "There have been pockets of attempts on my life but not to
this magnitude".He said that police have stepped in and launched investigation into the incident.
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