According to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer for Imo State, SP Bala Elkana, Gulak checked out of Protea Hotel, took a cab and on his way to the Airport, in company with two others, the cab in which he was travelling was waylaid.
Gulak, from Adamawa State, conducted the controversial governorship primaries that declared Senator Hope Uzodimma the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
It is not clear what his mission in the state was or whether he visited the Governor Uzodimma, but Elkana, in his statement said that in view of the security situation in the South East, Imo state and the country generally, he should have sought escort.
Full text of statement reads:
MURDER OF AHMED GULAK BY ARMED BANDITS.
On the 30/5/2021, at about 07:20hrs, armed bandits intercepted and attacked a Toyota Camry cab carrying Ahmed Gulak and two others who were on their way to Sam Mbakwe Airport to catch a flight.
Ahmed Gulak left his room at Protea Hotel without informing the Police nor sister agencies in view of the fragile security situation in the South East and Imo in particular. He left without any security escorts and while the cab driver took irregular route to the airport, six armed bandits who rode in a Toyota Sienna intercepted, identified and shot at Ahmed Gulak at around Umueze Obiangwu in Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area close to the Airport.
The Commissioner of Police Imo CP Abutu Yaro, fdc has directed a discreet investigation into the matter as Tactical and Special forces have been deployed to cordone the area and arrest perpetrators.
Sp Bala Elkana
Police Public Relations Officer
For: Commisioner of Police ,Imo State Police Command.
