{"id":75512,"date":"2025-09-22T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75512"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:03:02","slug":"prominent-apc-chieftain-shot-dead-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/22\/prominent-apc-chieftain-shot-dead-in-benue\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent APC Chieftain Shot Dead in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen on motorcycles have killed Ejeh Udeh, a prominent All Progressives Congress (APC), leader in Benue State, in his hometown of Ugboju, Otukpo Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred around 11 p.m. on Sunday as Udeh returned home in heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the assailants opened fire at close range near his residence.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Otukpo Council Chairman, Hon. Maxwell Ogiri, described the killing as a \u201cdevastating blow,\u201d noting that Udeh was not only a politician but also a community pillar.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that security agencies have been mobilized to track the perpetrators, though the rainstorm at the time of the attack may have hindered immediate response.<\/p>\n<p>Benue police spokesperson, DSP Udeme Edet, said investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The killing has heightened fears over escalating insecurity and politically linked violence in rural parts of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; Gunmen on motorcycles have killed Ejeh Udeh, a prominent All Progressives Congress (APC), leader in Benue State, in his hometown of Ugboju, Otukpo Local Government Area. The attack occurred around 11 p.m. on Sunday as Udeh returned home in heavy rain. Eyewitnesses said the assailants opened fire at close range near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75514,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75512\/revisions\/75514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}