APC chieftain, Akagburuonye, escapes assassins

Estate mogul and stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Chief Success Akagburuonye, is thanking God and the security agencies for miraculously escaping hired assassins, who he said had laid siege for him along the Owerri Airport Road and his ancestral home.

Akagburuonye spoke in his country home in Ogbor-Uvuru, Aboh Mbaise council, when he hosted the Owerri senatorial zone Council of Elders towards picking an acceptable gubernatorial candidate for the zone. This comes as the incumbent Governor Hope Uzodimma has vowed to endorse a candidate from the zone as his successor.

Narrating his ordeal to newsmen after the zonal consultation, he stated that “unfortunately for them, the security intelligence had revealed their evil plans, which led to some arrests.” He added that he was keeping the location of their detention secret to avoid complications in the ongoing investigations by the security personnel.”

Akagburuonye, who is the convener of the platform, Hope Rising for Imolites, alleged that some snippets from the security intelligence point in the direction of a former governor of the state as sponsor of the arrested assassins.

“I don’t have any doubt with the preliminary result of the security’s snippets, because the said former governor has dangerously crossed my part and is applying all manner of guises to deprive me of my landed properties in Abuja,” he further alleged.

“I had a business interaction with him in 2018, through his elder sister, and before then, I had never met the man. We discussed some land issues, but the matter was aborted, and that was the end of the business.

“However, he has been applying a lot of toxic means to confiscate some plots of my land in Abuja. The case is currently before the Appeal Court, Abuja, and he is now masterminding my elimination because of my hard-won properties.

Against this background, he charged politicians and businessmen to respect agreements and play politics with the fear of God.

Meanwhile, Akagburuonye, who is positioning to be the candidate of the APC, charged politicians and businessmen to respect agreements and play politics with the fear of God.