6th October, 2016
A statement jointly signed by Felix Ejechi and Emenike Onyige, on behalf of APC Ward 4, in Ogba/Ndoni/Egbema Local Government Area (ONELGA) of Rivers State, stated that until his death, Franklyn Obi was the ONELGA APC Ward 4 Chairman.
He was murdered alongside his wife and son, “two days after functioning as the Master of Ceremony at a meeting of the APC in Omoku.”
The statement added that a mass burial for them would hold on 14 October, 2016, after an open air church service at St. Stephens School field, Omoku.
Late Franklyn Obi was 46 years old at the time of his death while his pregnant wife, Uloma was 42. Their son was 18.