{"id":115692,"date":"2019-05-10T07:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115692"},"modified":"2019-05-10T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T06:37:11","slug":"apc-chieftain-assassinated-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=115692","title":{"rendered":"APC chieftain assassinated in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1555764838_Imam-murdered-in-Jigawa-Daily-Post-Nigeria.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Unknown gunmen have assassinated a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Benson Omunakwe, in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Omunakwe, a State House of Assembly aspirant for Obio-Akpor Constituency II in the just-concluded general elections, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that Omunakwe was shot inside his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman of the command, Nnamdi Omoni said the Commissioner of Police; Usman Belel ordered investigation into the assassination that led to the arrest of two suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Omoni also said the suspects were helping the police in investigation, just as he disclosed that the victim was shot dead around Agip Estate within Rumueme community in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown gunmen have assassinated a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Benson Omunakwe, in Rivers State. Omunakwe, a State House of Assembly aspirant for Obio-Akpor Constituency II in the just-concluded general elections, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the early hours of Thursday. DAILY POST gathered that Omunakwe was shot inside his vehicle. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[29,5091,642],"class_list":["post-115692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-apc","tag-nyesom-wike","tag-rivers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}