JUST IN: APC chieftain Frank-Oputu assassinated in Bayelsa

Frank-Oputu

Frank-Oputu

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

Sunday Frank-Oputu, a prominent member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State has been assassinated by gunmen.

He was said to be a strong supporter of a suit in Bayelsa State High Court contesting the legality of the recently conducted ward, local government and state congresses of the party.

Frank-Oputu who is an indigene of Igbomotoru Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state was shot dead about 11:50 pm yesterday at his Bay-Bridge residence, Yenezue-gene, Yenagoa.

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A member of his community who confirmed the incident refused to speak, promising to give further details after a meeting of the family of the deceased is concluded later today.

Frank-Oputu vehemently condemned the attack of a State High Court where the presiding Judge, Justice Nayai Aganaba, was stoned with plastic bottles by the hoodlums.

He vowed to follow up to a logical conclusion, the filed case before his untimely death.

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