{"id":120824,"date":"2025-07-20T16:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=120824"},"modified":"2025-07-20T16:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:49:59","slug":"pdp-condemns-assassination-attempt-on-anambra-guber-candidate-jude-ezenwafor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-condemns-assassination-attempt-on-anambra-guber-candidate-jude-ezenwafor\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Condemns Assassination Attempt on Anambra Guber Candidate, Jude Ezenwafor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Myke Agunwa, Abuja<\/div>\n
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the attempt on the life of its candidate in the November 8, 2025, governorship election in Anambra State, Chief Jude Ezenwafor, by gunmen who reportedly ambushed and opened fire on him in Abuja while he was returning from an appointment.<\/div>\n
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Ezenwafor, who is currently in a private hospital in the nation’s capital where he is due for a surgery session, told journalists early Saturday morning that he suffered a near death situation when gunmen accosted him around Wuse 2 on Friday night.<\/div>\n
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Still nursing injuries amidst excruciating pains, Ezenwafor confirmed that he was on his way home after an appointment when the incident happened.<\/div>\n
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The PDP, in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said that after a critical analysis of the violent incident, the party believes that certain interests who, ostensibly uncomfortable with the growing popularity of the PDP candidate ahead of the November election, are desperate to prevent him from participating in the coming poll.<\/div>\n
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\u201cOur party has also been made aware of other plots by some anti-democratic elements in Anambra State to commence a series of smear campaigns against our candidate following the failure of the assassination plot.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThis attack on the PDP candidate is another sad commentary on the alarming level of insecurity in the country under the overtly insensitive, corrupt, and abysmally rudderless All Progressives Congress (APC) administration,\u201d PDP stated.<\/div>\n
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The opposition party said that the assailants and their sponsors will continue to fail in their evil machinations, as the PDP candidate is divinely destined. The party said that its Anambra governorship candidate enjoys the support of the people and will surely emerge victorious in the election.<\/div>\n
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The party charged the Inspector General of Police to immediately apprehend the assailants and their sponsors while also beefing up security around the PDP candidate ahead of the election<\/div>\n
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The PDP family urged Chief Ezenwafor not to be dispirited by the attack. \u201cThe fact remains that Anambra State is home to the PDP and no amount of attack, smear campaign, or propaganda will sway the resolve of our Party, candidate and the people of Anambra State to elect a transparent, humane, people-oriented and result-driven administration on the platform of the PDP\u201d.<\/div>\n
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