Why 10,000 Jobs Leader, Ugonna Was
Killed Colleagues Accuse Imo APC Govt
The gruesome murder of Dr Ugonna Omereonye, one of the leaders of the embattled 10,000 jobs beneficiaries in Imo State, has continued to raise dust in the state and neighbouring states, following revelations of his last encounters with people, especiallycertain political leaders.
In an emergency meeting of the group over the news of Ugonna’s murder in Owerri recently, some of the members who disclosed that they were in touch with him through phone calls, stated that late Dr Ugonna had told them how leaders of the a political party in Oru East, approached him after the March 28th presidential election to lure him into their camp for the Governorship and State Assembly elections following his outstanding mobilisation for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and resistance of any form of rigging, intimidation and manipulation by any political party. It was revealed that they offered him money and promised to make sure he got employed. But as a true leader, he rejected their offers arguing that he alone cannot get his job back at the expense of his colleagues. He maintained that he and his colleagues had resolved to support and work for the PDP, for giving them employment in the first place, and have promised to pull them out from the dungeon of agonies and tribulation the government in the state subjected them in the last four years by reinstating them.
Our source opined that the refusal of the offers to work for the political party is alleged to be the unforgiving crime the University of Nigeria, Nsukka graduate, Dr Ugonna committed. As a grassroots person with untended antecedents his followership kept increasing as he applied one-on-one campaigns around his booth, Ward and Local Government Area, with every opportunity and encounter with people.
One of his cousins submitted that his campaign exploits and followership became a threat to an opposition party in Oru East. However, the last straw that broke the camel’s back was Dr Ugonna’s text message to his colleagues
