A councillorship candidate in the forthcoming March 6 2021 Local Government Council elections in Delta State, Hon. Ofa Eliot, has been murdered by gunmen.
Though the facts surrounding the incidence were still sketchy at the time of filing this report, Eliot who clinched the PDP councillorship ticket for Ward 8 was murdered on Monday on his way back from Asaba through the back road from Benin City to Oghara while returning from the DSIEC screening exercise for candidates representing different political parties in the March 6 elections.
Eliot, a young and vibrant politician in the state until his death was the immediate past supervisor of Environment for Ethiope West LGA, and Manager of Oghara Hotels.
It was gathered that Eliot was with two other councillorship candidates who went for the same exercise when they were attacked by the gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen who released a hail of bullets at the vehicle.
Eliot died on the spot, and the other two councillorship candidates were taken hostage and whisked away to the bush.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, said she was not aware of the incidence.