Ahmed Gulak, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), has been killed by gunmen in Imo state.
The former aide of ex-President
Goodluck Jonathan was shot dead by gunmen while returning to Abuja from Owerri,
Imo state capital.
He once declared himself as the national chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the party’s leadership crisis in January
2016.
Gulak was chairman of the APC committee that conducted the
primaries for Imo governorship election.
He had been declared missing after arriving in the state to
supervise the exercise in October 2018.
He later said he was
“kidnapped” alongside members of the panel, and that he was offered $2
million to influence the outcome of the primaries.
He had also alleged that Rochas Okorocha, then-governor of
Imo state, forced members of the electoral panel to declare Uche Nwosu, his
favourite candidate, as the winner of the primary.
The APC national working committee (NWC) eventually
cancelled the exercise after Nwosu was announced the winner.
HOW HE FELL OUT WITH JONATHAN — AND PDP
Jonathan sacked him as his special adviser on political
matters in April 2014.
No reason was given for his sack but he was alleged to be
meddling in the affairs of some PDP states.
At the time, he had a running battle with Godswill Akpabio,
then-governor of Akwa Ibom state and chairman of PDP Governors Forum.
Few days after he was dismissed from office, he resigned as
the national coordinator of the Goodluck Support Group (GSG).
About four years later, in February 2018, he defected from
the PDP to the APC, citing “impunity” and “injustice” in the former as the
reason for his departure.
“We have left the PDP with its entire structures in the
state (Adamawa) to join the APC, so the PDP is destroyed and buried. We have
also converted the party secretariat to (that of) APC,” he had said.
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