By Okungbowa Aiwerie, Asaba

Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee Delta State, Mr Jones Ode Erue has fingered “armed political hoodlums” in the failed assassination attempt and robbery of its Vice-Chairman, Prince Fred Mordi.

He blamed armed political hoodlums parading the streets, terrorising law-abiding citizens, especially APC chieftains with unimpeachable character.

He berated the Okowa-led administration for “deliberately failing to equip the police and sister security agencies, with state-of-the-art crime-fighting equipment to help curb the insecurity menace ravaging the state.”

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Erue, in a statement, yesterday, expressed deep shock at the attempt on the life of Prince Mordi saying: “It is one crime too many that must be investigated by the police and other security agencies in the state.”

Erue wondered the actual intention of the assailants who robbed on the day he was inaugurated as State Vice-Chairman APC Delta North.

According to the statement, Prince Fred Mordi was robbed of his mobile phones, bank ATM cards, large sums of money, car key and other valuables at gunpoint in his home in Asaba.

Erue urged the police to deploy professionalism in tracking down the assailants who vowed to return for the APC State Vice Chairman Delta North for standing with the shared vision of progressives ideologies as espoused by the APC.

He assured the victim of the unflinching support of the party leadership, adding that it will do “everything legally possible to unmask those behind the act.”

Part of the statement reads: “The Chairman bemoans the state of insecurity in Asaba and its environs where real and armed political hoodlums parade the streets unchallenged, terrorizing law-abiding citizens and particularly, chieftains of the APC whose pedigree they cannot compromise as the most glaring inadequacies of a clueless administration under the watchful eyes of a governor and his political party that has deliberately failed to equip the police and sister security agencies, with state of the art crime-fighting equipment to help curb the insecurity menace ravaging the state.”