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TheCable understands that despite being warned against the trip, Gulak insisted, noting that “we are all Nigerians”.
Gulak was the lead consultant on the public hearing in Owerri, the host city for Imo and Abia states.
“Nobody was interested in being deployed to Owerri but Gulak offered to go. He was initially meant to go to Gombe but he decided against it when it appeared no one was keen on going to Owerri,” an insider told TheCable.
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“We prevailed on him not to go, but he was hellbent on carrying out the assignment, despite the fact that consultants from the south-east turned down the assignment.”
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has urged northerners to suspend plans of travelling to the south-east.
In a statement issued on Monday, by Mr Audu Ogbe, chairman of the forum, stated that the travel advisory became necessary following the killing of Ahmed Gulak, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Gulak, who is from the north, was killed by gunmen on Sunday while returning to Abuja from Owerri, Imo state capital.
Ogbe disclosed that if any travel should be made, it must be “absolutely necessary” otherwise such a trip to the south-east should be suspended.
“Yesterday, Sunday 30th May, 2021, one of leaders in the north was brutally murdered on the streets of Owerri Imo state by gunmen, most likely of IPOB and Eastern Security Network (ESN), who have been waging a public campaign of killings and other forms of brutalities, to realise their dream country of Biafra,” he said.
The assassins, true to type, identified their quarry, murdered him and didn’t bother about the witnesses. It is all the more curious because Gulak has a recent history of association with Imo State.