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  • Fani-Kayode trying to benefit from Gulak’s assassination in Imo – Uzodimma

    Fani-Kayode trying to benefit from Gulak’s assassination in Imo – Uzodimma

    Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma on Wednesday described as unfortunate former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s statement on the murder of ex Political Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak.

    Uzodimma in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Oguwike Nwachuku questioned the character of the former minister who he said wants to make capital of the murder by trying to reap from ugly situation.

    “It seems the former Aviation Minister wants to make capital of the unfortunate gruesome murder of Alhaji Gulak who was killed on Sunday morning around Ngor Okpala on his way to the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport.

    “But Fani-Kayode in his characteristics manner of always trying to reap from ugly situations has taken to his Facebook wall to make insinuations that suggest he does not want those behind Gulak’s assassination unveiled,” he added.

    Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday had asked on his Facebook wall: “Why did the Governor of Imo not provide security for Gulak? Why was Gulak dressed in jeans and a baseball cap as if he was in disguise? I knew Gulak for over ten years and I never saw him wearing jeans and a baseball cap.”

    But the governor in response said: “Ordinarily, one would not have bothered responding to the balderdash Fani-Kayode posted on his Facebook wall because Nigerians know the character that is him, but for the unsuspecting members of the public who may not know the reason behind his comments.

    “Explanations had been offered that Gulak was not Governor Uzodimma’s guest as of the time he was killed in Imo, but had come to the State on the invitation of the organisers of the 1999 Constitution Review Committee of the Senate as a Consultant.”

  • Gulak: ACF issues travel advisory to members, warns against further killings of northerners in South East

    Gulak: ACF issues travel advisory to members, warns against further killings of northerners in South East

    The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has warned against the killing of northerners residing or visiting any part of the southern region, particularly in the southeast zone.

    This follows the gruesome killing of a former APC Chieftain Ahmed Gulak.

    The national chairman of the ACF and former minister of agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbe, called on security agencies to do everything possible to apprehend those who assassinated mister Gulak and bring them to justice.

    In a communique on Monday, Ogbe said the lives of northerners, and indeed of all Nigerians matter, adding that the ACF cannot keep mute when its people, and indeed all Nigerians are murdered in cold blood by misguided and atrocious people.

    The ACF also cautioned all northerners traveling to the southeast to weigh the importance of such trips.

    In Ogbe’s words: “The ACF was among those who put pressure, on, and ultimately convinced, the AUFCDN to call off the strke. The ACF did that in the spirit of one Nigeria.

    “Yesterday, Sunday 30th May, 2021, one of leaders in the north was brutally murdered on the streets of Owerri Imo state by gunmen, most likely of IPOD and Eastern Security Network (ESN), who have been waging a public campaign of killings and other forms of brutalities, to realise their dream country of Biafra.

    “The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) hereby issues a very strong advisory to all northerners who may wish to travel to the South East. Northerners to weigh the importance and necessity of such travels. Unless such trips are absolutely necessary and of compelling nature, like matters of life & death, they should NOT be made.

    “And where the trip must be undertaken, the traveller should take every security precaution in his or her movements while there, including linking with the security agencies at the place/places to be visited.

    “The need to issue this travel advisory has become necessary against the backdrop of history, wherein events such the killings of northern leaders in 1966 triggered the events that led to a civil war that cost the country thousands of lives, and an untold sufferings to millions of innocent people. To be forewarned is to be forearmed, and a stich in time saves nine!

    “The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) also wishes to call, with the strongest voice, on the Security Agencies to do everthing possible to apprehend those who assassinated Alh. (Barr) Ahmed Gulak in cold blood and bring them to justice.

    “The lives of northerners, and indeed of ALL Nigerians matter, and the ACF cannot keep mute when our people, and indeed all Nigerians, are murdered in cold blood by misguided and atrocious people.

    “Unfortunately in the midst of all this serious national crisis it would appear that the entire narrative from the South East has been taken over by IPOB and so-called unknown gunmen to the exclusion of established leaders. This is worrisome.”

  • Gulak: Allow security agencies do their work, Wike tackles Uzodinma over ‘political assassination’ comment

    Gulak: Allow security agencies do their work, Wike tackles Uzodinma over ‘political assassination’ comment

    Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said that his Imo State counterpart, Hope Uzodinma was hasty in pronouncing that the death of APC chieftain, Ahmed Gulak was a political assassination.

    In a broadcast on Monday, Governor Uzodinma expressed shock over the killing of the APC stalwart, describing the incident as an unfortunate clear case of political assassination.

    “I think that the governor of Imo State, my brother Hope Uzodinma should allow the security agencies to do their proper investigation for it is too early now for him to come out to say it is a political assassination.

    “Having done that, it means that you already know those who committed the crime and that will not be fair. When things of this nature happen, allow the security agencies to really go into the matter and then say look, from our investigations, this is what we found out,” Wike stated during a monitored programme on Channels Television.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that gunmen on Sunday killed a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ahmed Gulak around Umueze Obiangwu in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area close to the Sam Mbakwe Airport road in Owerri, Imo State.

    Gulak who was a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was heading to the airport when the assailants attacked him and shot him on the spot.

    While commiserating with the Gulak family, Governor Wike noted that there is no loss of life that is acceptable, regardless of the form it takes. He, however, warned against the politicizing of Gulak’s death, stressing that all extrajudicial killings of citizens in the country must be treated as unacceptable.

  • Gulak death is a clear case of political assassination – Uzodinma

    Gulak death is a clear case of political assassination – Uzodinma

    Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma has expressed shock over the killing of APC stalwart, Ahmed Gulak, describing the incident as an unfortunate clear case of political assassination.

    Addressing Imo people in a broadcast at the Government House in Owerri the Imo State capital, the governor said he is really saddened by the gruesome murder which underscores the ugly security situation in Imo State in recent times.

    He said he could not go to church when he heard about Gulak’s assassination.

    “Alhaji Ahmed Gulak was in Imo State for a national assignment. He came to Owerri with the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendment. Being a humble man, he chose to travel incognito according to his friend who was with him. Someone must have trailed him from the hotel to the airport. That is exactly why his gruesome murder appears to be a clear case of political assassination,” he said.

    “The brutal and callous assassination of Alhaji Ahmed Gulak yesterday, Sunday, May 30th, 2021 on his way to the Sam Mbakwe Cargo Airport, is painful because he did not deserve to die that way.”

    “The death of this compatriot is a personal loss to me because he was an invaluable friend and brother whose sense of justice, fairness and uprightness endeared him to me. I was shocked to my marrows when the sad news of his callous murder was broken to me.

    “I was getting ready to go to church when the sad news came and I could not attend the service again. It was simply one of the most devastating news I have heard in my life and I am yet to recover from the shock. It remains a puzzle to me why anyone would want to murder him in this gruesome and vicious manner.”

  • News of Gulak’s death put me in distress-Pius Anyim

    News of Gulak’s death put me in distress-Pius Anyim

    A former President of the Senate, Pius Anyim, has said the murder of Ahmed Gulak put him in distress.

    Recall that the political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, was shot dead in Owerri, Imo State.

    In a statement made available to TheNewsGuru, Anyim noted that Gulak was a man of conviction and courage.

    The statement read in part: “30th of May, 2021, is no doubt the darkest Sunday of my life. The news of the gruesome murder of my friend and colleague, Hon. Ahmed Gulak knocked me down into distress, and it took me till this morning of 31st May, 2021, to regain my senses from the shock.

    Hon. Ahmed Gulak was my colleague in President Goodluck’s Administration. He was a man of conviction and courage. He was endowed with great intellectual prowess that enabled him to have unusual clarity of thought and expression: a dedicated nationalist and a faithful friend.

    Losing Gulak, like other innocent, Nigerians to unknown assailants is the darkest point in the senseless and mindless violence growing in the country and South East. This death is one too many. The security agencies owe humanity the duty to unravel and bring to book those behind this dastardly act. My heart goes to the family of Hon. Gulak”.

     

  • [GRAPHIC PHOTOS] Police kill alleged murderers of Ahmed Gulak, recover ammunition and vehicles

    [GRAPHIC PHOTOS] Police kill alleged murderers of Ahmed Gulak, recover ammunition and vehicles

    The Imo State Police Command says it has neutralised the alleged killers of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Gulak, and recovered ammunition and vehicles from them.

    A statement issued by the police on Sunday night noted that some of the arms recovered from the attackers included three AK 47 rifles, one pistol, five AK 47 magazines with 92 rounds of live ammunition.

    According to the statement, “Eyewitness account, especially the account given by the driver of the vehicle that was conveying Ahmed Gulak to the Airport before the attack, gave a vivid description of the assailants and the vehicles they used in carrying out the attack.

    “The assailants were said to have used a Toyota Camry 2005 model with silver color; Toyota Sienna 1998 Model with golden color; Toyota Hilux with white color; and a Lexus RX 330 with golden Color. (Registration numbers are withheld for security reasons).

    “Having established the identity of the assailants and the description of the vehicles used in carrying out the attack, the teams further got details of the direction the hoodlums have taken. With further leads, the team was able to establish the location of the suspects.

    “The suspects were rounded up at Afor Enyiogugu junction in Aboh-Mbaise Local Government Area. The hoodlums were met distributing onions to locals from a trailer they confiscated. The trailer was loaded with onions from the Northern region of Nigeria.”

    It explained that on sighting the police, the hoodlums providing security coverage to those sharing the onions opened fire on the Police teams.

    “The gallant and battle-ready Police Officers swiftly returned the fire. The six hoodlums who carried out the killings and four other members of their gang were fatally injured,” the security agency added. “Three out of the four vehicles used in attacking Gulak were recovered.”

    Gulak was killed around Umueze Obiangwu in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area close to the Sam Mbakwe Airport road in Owerri, Imo State on Sunday morning.

    Sources told Channels Television that Gulak who was a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was heading to the airport when the assailants attacked him and shot him on the spot.

    Gulak was trailed from his hotel room to the spot where he was killed.

    The statement added that “The assailants were identified as members of the proscribed IPOB and ESN. The driver who drove late Ahmed Gulak and a co- victim who survived have all identified the dead body of the IPOB/ESN members positively as their attackers and also identified the three vehicles recovered as those used by the attackers.

    POLICE IN IMO HAVE NEUTRALISED THE KILLERS OF AHMED GULAK

    *RECOVERED THREE AK47 RIFLES, ONE PISTOL, FIVE AK47 MAGAZINES WITH 92 ROUNDS OF LIVE AMMUNITION

    *RECOVERED THREE OUT OF THE FOUR VEHICLES USED IN THE ATTACK

    On 30th May, 2021 following a distress received by the Command on the gruesome murder of Ahmed Gulak, Police Special Forces made up of Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Tactical Units from the command were deployed to the scene at Obiangwu Junction at Ngorokpala LGA of Imo state. The teams were given a clear instruction to identify and apprehend the perpetrators of the act with a view of bringing them to justice.

    2. Eye witnesses account, especially the account given by the Driver of the vehicle that was conveying Ahmed Gulak to the Airport before the attack, gave a vivid description of the assailants and the vehicles they used in carrying out the attack. The assailants were said to have used a Toyota Camry 2005 model with silver color; Toyota Sienna 1998 Model with golden color; Toyota Hilux with white color; and a Lexus RX 330 with golden Color. (Registration numbers are withheld for security reasons).

    3. Having established the identity of the assailants and the description of the vehicles used in carrying out the attack, the teams further got details of the direction the hoodlums have taken. With further leads, the team was able to establish the location of suspects. The suspects were rounded up at Afor Enyiogugu junction in Aboh-Mbaise Local Government Area. The hoodlums where met distributing onions to locals from a trailer they confiscated. The trailer was loaded with Onions from the Northern region of Nigeria.

    4. On sighting the Police, the hoodlums providing security coverage to those sharing the onions opened fire on the Police teams. The Gallant and battle ready Police Officers swiftly returned the fire. The six hoodlums who carried out the killings and four other members of their gang were fatally injured. Three out of the four vehicles used in attacking Gulak were recovered.

    5. Three AK 47 Rifles, one Pistol, five AK 47 magazines with ninety two rounds of live ammunition and criminal charms were recovered.

    6. The Commissioner of Police Imo State, CP Abutu Yaro, fdc commended the gallant effort of the team and admonished them to continue to protect the public space.

  • Ahmed Gulak: Northern Youths give Uzodinma 2-week ultimatum

    Ahmed Gulak: Northern Youths give Uzodinma 2-week ultimatum

    The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has given Governor Hope Uzodinma a two-week ultimatum to fish out the killers of Adamawa politician, Ahmed Gulak.

    Gulak was killed Sunday morning as he headed to the Sam Mbakwe Airport in Owerri.

    According to the police his Toyota Camry taxi was ambushed by six assassins, riding in a Toyota Sienna.

    They identified and shot him around Umueze Obiangwu in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area close to the Airport.

    The NYCN in a reaction Sunday urged Uzodinma to bring to justice as soon as possible the killers of the former political adviser to President Jonathan.

    NYCN threatened to make Governor Uzodinma a persona not grata throughout the northern states.

    NYCN National President, Isah Abubakar, said: “It’s so pathetic and saddened the continuous killing and lawlessness going on in the South Eastern part of Nigeria.

    “The government of Imo State must give an account of those who killed Gulak. The continuous killing of Northern and destruction of security facilities in Imo State will no longer be tolerated.”

    The group urged the federal government to perform its constitutional duty of preserving lives and property by taking immediate action to prevent the lawlessness from dovetailing into civil war.

  • Killing of Ahmed Gulak senseless, wicked – South West governors

    Killing of Ahmed Gulak senseless, wicked – South West governors

    The Chairman of the South West Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has described the killing of the former Special Adviser on Political Matters in the last Administration, Ahmed Gulak as senseless and wicked.

    Akeredolu in a statement personally signed by him in Akure, the Ondo state capital said the killing of the All Progressive Congress chieftain was “very shocking and disturbing.

    He said “This is one murder too many. It is senseless and wicked. “The perpetrators of this heinous act are enemies of this country. This contrivance is meant to mislead, confuse and destroy.

    “It bears the unmistakable, despicable imprints of fifth columnists bent on setting the country on the path of conflagration. These criminals must not be allowed to succeed.

    The statement reads “The news of the death of an APC chieftain and former Special Adviser on Political Matters in the last Administration, Ahmed Gulak, in Owerri, Imo State, this morning, is very shocking and disturbing.

    “The details of the tragic incident remain sketchy.

    “A press statement credited to the Imo State Police Command claimed that some bandits were responsible for the gruesome murder of a man who was a visitor to the State. This is unacceptable.

    “This cowardly act is calculated to instigate Nigerians against each other, particularly Northerners, against the Igbo living outside the South East. “We must confront the enemies of the people with a view to neutralizing them.

    “This is definitely not the time for political correctness. Banditry should not be allowed to subvert the legitimacy of the current Government at all levels.

    “We call on all security agencies to collaborate with a view to unveiling the criminal elements sponsoring and undertaking terrorist acts. they must be punished, severely.

    “We want to use this medium to express our solidarity with our brother Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma.

    “We admonish him and other Governors in the South Eastern States to brace up, and confront the current security challenge to put an end to the bloodbath in the land. Akeredolu said that “The enemies of the people always employ the weapon of fear to create disaffection in the polity.

  • BREAKING: Former President Jonathan’s political aide, Ahmed Gulak shot dead in Imo

    BREAKING: Former President Jonathan’s political aide, Ahmed Gulak shot dead in Imo

    Emman Ovuakporie

    Former President Goodluck Jonathan political adviser, Ahmed Gulak has been shot dead in Owerri, capital of Imo State in the South Eastern Region of Nigeria.

    TheNewsGuru.com, reports Gulak was killed on Saturday night in Owerri.

    Details of what took him to Imo are yet to be ascertained, however, unconfirmed sources revealed that he was in Imo on the invitation of some Northern Groups in the state.

    In a statement issued by his classmate and childhood friend, Alhaji Dr Umar Ado Gulak was invited by some northern groups in the region.

    His text

    “I just confirmed the sad and gruesome death of my friend and classmate, the former Hon. Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, former Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President and former Special Adviser Political to President Goodluck Jonathan, Barr. Ahmadu Ali Gulak.

    “Barr Gulak was said to have been killed last night by unknown gunmen in Owerri, Imo State.

    “May Allah (SWT) forgive his sins, bless his soul and reward his good deeds with Aljannah on the Day of Resurrection. May Allah (SWT) also give all his children, relatives, friends and loved ones, the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. And may Allah (SWT) bless us with faithful deaths when it is our turn to die. Ameen.

    “Please let all and sundry accept my heartfelt sympathy over this personal painful experience even as I draw solace that he lived a good, helpful and productive life, well illustrated by the fact that he died while in service of his dear country,” Ardo said.