– Gunmen stormed the home town of the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress – The gunmen killed and severed the head of a 28-year-old man in Mgbuitanwo community – The assailants also abducted another resident of the area News just coming in from River state indicate that gunmen on March 17 stormed Mgbuitanwo, in Emohua Clan, Emohua local government area of the state. INEC ad-hoc staff during election. Vanguard in its report says the gunmen in the early hours of this morning stormed the home town of chief Andrew Uchendu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate in the March 19 rerun election in the state. The gunmen reportedly killed a 28-year-old man identified as Mr. Ukeoma and beheaded him. The assailants also abducted another resident who is yet to be identified. The residents of the community are currently in apprehension as news of the incident filtered in. There has been apprehension following series of killings that have accompanied the announcement of rerun state and national legislative elections in the state. Recently the acting national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Segun Oni at a media parley in the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, alleged that these killings were politically motivated because most of the casualties are members of his party. The state government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) refuted the allegation and hinted that the said killings were as a result of the ongoing cult war between rival groups. The deputy inspector-general of police in charge of operations, Sotonye Wakama, in a bitter reaction to the situation, warned that the force would not spare anybody or “any sacred cow” who would want to disrupt Saturday March 19 election in the state. “We are going to stretch the law to fullest elasticity. Let me explain it, if it would require us to use a mortal pestle to kill a mosquito whatever challenge that might truncate the Saturday, March 19, 2016, national and state assemblies re-run elections in Rivers state,” he said. In a bid to make real the threat of the DIG, the force headquarters has declared wanted the chairman, caretaker committee of Asari-Toru local government area of the state, Ambassador Soboma Jackrich, for his alleged involvement in the recent killings. Despite the happenings in the state, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recruited the services of 24,930 ad- hoc staff, 379 collation officers and 37 returning officers for the exercise. The ad-hoc staff are to lend a helping hand in the rerun election scheduled to hold in three senatorial districts, 12 federal constituencies and 22 state constituencies.