PORT HARCOURT— Returning Officer in the March 28, House of Representatives
election for Obio Akpor federal constituency in Rivers State, Dr Ebirien Fubara
has been killed alongside his son at their residence in Port Harcourt, Rivers
State.
Vanguard gathered that the sad incident occurred weekend. Meanwhile, when
contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmad Muhammad said, the
police was not aware of the ugly development.
The late Fubara was appointed a Commissioner in the Rivers State Independent
Electoral Commission, RSIEC, by Governor Nyesom Wike.
It was gathered that the assassins, who stormed his Odili Road residence in
Port Harcourt, first killed his second with a rod and then went for the father,
clubbing him till he fell unconscious.
Thinking that he had passed on, the assassins fled. Dr Fubara according to
reports gave up the ghost on Sunday at a hospital in Port Harcourt and his
remains deposited in a morgue.
He was a senior lecturer at the Ignatius Ajuru University, Rivers State