Nweke was tortured to death by hoodlums suspected to be loyalists of a rival party on March 18, 2023, the day of the Governorship and House of Assembly Elections in the state.

The PDP ward chairman was killed at Umuezeokaoha community, in the Ezza North Local Government Area of the state while working as his party’s agent in the area.

The state police command, in a statement signed by its spokesperson, SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, said the suspects confessed to the crime.

The statement read in part, “During the interrogation of the suspects, the first suspect, Leonard Kelechi Nwali, a Labour Party House of Assembly aspirant, Ezza North Constituency, confessed to hiring the assailants who were meant to torture the late Peter Nweke. However, he died in the process. According to him, the late Peter Nweke posed a threat to his political ambition, so he contacted one Akwasi of Umuezeoka, in Ezza North LGA, who spearheaded the torture that eventually resulted in the death of Mr Peter Nweke.

“The second suspect, Onyebuchi Chita, of Nkomoro community, in the same local government area, confessed to have brought in the killers from Nkomoro into Ogboji community, where Peter Nweke was killed.

“The third suspect, Aloke Obinna, of Ogboji community, confessed to have given his motorcycle to one Onyebuchi Chita for escape after the incident.

“While Ifeanyi Nwokpuku, the fourth suspect, of Ogboji community in Ezza North LGA, conspired with one Sampson Nweke, who pointed Peter Nweke out to the killers.”

Onovwakpoyeya said the suspects would be arraigned at the end of investigations.

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Naja’atu Muhammad was the Director of Civil Society in the Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

Her resignation is coming one month to the presidential election.

She directed her resignation letter to the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu.

“The challenges that Nigeria faces today require me to continue championing the struggle for a better country with a clear conscience as I remain absolutely loyal to Nigeria,” Naja’atu said.

“I have come to the realization that my values and beliefs no longer align with party politics.

“Our political parties have no ideological differences and are simply robes that politicians wear to serve their personal needs and interests at any given time.

“As a result of which we see politicians changing from one robe to another whenever it suits them,” she stated.

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As gathered, the decision to elect members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party through the zonal congresses was said to have been as a result of the governors’ rejection of an anointed candidate from President Muhammadu Buhari and members of its caucus against their preferred nominee as a consensus candidate, who they believe would represent the interest of every member of the party.

Until Monday, members of the party were not certain if the national convention would hold as earlier announced by the national executive led by the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, but speculations across both the APC national headquarters office in Abuja and that of the presidency corridors have already indicated that there would be no convention and the conference may likely to be postponed and fixed for a new date if at all there would be any before the 2023 poll.

Meanwhile, the party moved away completely from the speculation, and instead of postponing the convention, announced that the congresses would be held at zonal levels to pick members that would represent zones at the national level.

Although, the party in a letter to the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday to communicate its new plan did not indicate what would be the job function of any of the members that emerge at the zonal level, whether as members of the national working committee or those that would serve as delegates for the NWC election.

In the letter signed by the national chairman for the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Mai Mala Buni, and the national secretary, John Akpanudoedehe, the party stressed that the letter overrides the earlier plan announced by the party.

According to the letter titled: Notice For The Conduct of Zonal Congresses, the APC leadership noted that the decision to postpone the national convention and embrace zonal congresses was predicated on the party’s constitution.

Part of the statement reads: “This notice supersedes our earlier notice for National Convention referenced APC/NHDQ?INEC?019?22?14 this is predicated on the evaluation of our party constitution.

“In furtherance to Article 85 of the Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) and compliance with section 12:6 our party constitution we hereby write to notify the commission that our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has scheduled to hold its zonal congresses on Saturday 26th March, 2022. Kindly arrange for your officials to monitor the exercise accordingly”.

The party’s caretaker committee’s decision came less than five days to the gathering after efforts to resolve the zoning of the party chairman and other elective positions within the APC allegedly proved abortive.

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Abdulsalam reportedly died in the early hours of today, Tuesday.

The Deputy National Secretary of the party, Kennedy Chigozie confirmed Abdulsalam’s demise.

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