To exact revenge for the murder of Oyibo Chukwu, the Labour Party candidate for the Enugu East Senatorial District, the residents of the Amuri Ancient Kingdom in the Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State on Tuesday invoked the spirits of their ancestors.
On February 22, Chukwu, a former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Oji-River branch, was brutally murdered at Amechi Awkunanaw, the administrative center for Nkanu West LGA.
prior to the election on February 25, after a campaign.
Despite the fact that his younger brother Kelvin Chukwu, who the Labour Party later selected to succeed him, won the senatorial seat, the assassination of Kelvin Chukwu continues to be met with condemnation and rain of curses.