{"id":5165,"date":"2019-02-23T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2019-02-23T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T14:32:00","slug":"nigeria-decides-two-apc-chieftains-allegedly-shot-dead-by-thugs-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-decides-two-apc-chieftains-allegedly-shot-dead-by-thugs-in-rivers","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria decides: Two APC chieftains allegedly shot dead by thugs in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers state, has lost two of its chieftains, Chief Mowan Etete and Ignatius.<\/p>\n<p>They were allegedly shot dead by suspected thugs.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement by the APC Publicity Secretary in Rivers State, Senibo Chris Finebone.<\/p>\n<p>Finebone said Etete was former council chairman of Andoni local government area while Ignatius was an ex-official member of APC Rivers State Executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, gunmen, allegedly from the opposition party, also killed another person believed to be late Chief Etete\u2019s cousin.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cPDP thugs have shot to death an APC chieftain in Asarama, Andoni LGA, Chief Mowan Etete. Etete was a former council chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, killed was his elder brother and another victim that is believed to be his cousin. It\u2019s instructive to note that PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus is from Andoni LGA in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIgnatius, an ex-official member of APC Rivers State Executive committee, was also shot to death in Ajakaja, same Andoni LGA of Prince Secondus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers state, has lost two of its chieftains, Chief Mowan Etete and Ignatius. They were allegedly shot dead by suspected thugs. This was contained in a statement by the APC Publicity Secretary in Rivers State, Senibo Chris Finebone. Finebone said Etete was former council chairman of Andoni local government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14],"tags":[34,136,65,355,237],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-death","tag-pdp","tag-river-state","tag-thuggery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria decides: Two APC chieftains allegedly shot dead by thugs in Rivers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-decides-two-apc-chieftains-allegedly-shot-dead-by-thugs-in-rivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria decides: Two APC chieftains allegedly shot dead by thugs in Rivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers state, has lost two of its chieftains, Chief Mowan Etete and Ignatius. 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