By Williams Anuku, Abuja
The lifeless body of Nassarawa State chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Philip Shekwo who was kidnapped shortly before midnight on Saturday, November 22 was found Sunday afternoon, Sunday.
Shekwo had during a thanksgiving service on Sunday, August 12, 2018, in Toto Local Government Area of the state declared that President Muhammadu Buhari was sent by God to save Nigeria from total collapse.
He said: “If not because God, in His infinite mercy, decided to bring Buhari to power at the time He did, the country could have been in a serious mess by now.
“The President is sincerely fighting corruption; corruption is responsible for all other reasons why there is so much rot in the system.
“Boko Haram was also defeated and no Local Government Area in the country today is under the control of the group as was the case in the past.
“Immediately President Buhari started fighting corruption and corrupt people, every right-thinking Nigerian knew that corruption would fight back.”
He attributed the killings by suspected Herdsmen and bandits in some parts of the country to “corruption fighting back to discredit the president”.
Shekwo appealed to Nigerians to believe in the President and the party as it would take time to rebuild the system which was destroyed by former leaders.
On Sunday, Bola Longe, the State Commissioner of Police CP who confirmed the incident, said the way and manner Shekwo was kidnapped and killed pointed towards murder.
“The intensity of the bullet match on the house and the force effort to gain access to the house is pointing irretrievably to the fact that it was more than kidnapping,” Longe said.
He added that no demands were made by the abductors and the evidence so far suggested a case of murder, not kidnapping.
“And then where we found his body now is too close to the house. When kidnapping is carried out, it’s for profit-making but between the twinkling of an eye, the man was killed and no demand what so ever, I believe it’s assassination,” he said.
He assured that a thorough investigation will be carried out to fish out the criminals and to understand how the murder happened.
