The Nigerian police have launched an investigation into the killing of the Nasarawa State All progressive Congress Chairman, Philips Shekwo.
The state’s commissioner of police, Bola Longe made this known to journalists in Lafia on Sunday, November 22, 2020.
Shekwo was abducted from his residence in Lafia on Saturday, November 21 by unkown gunmen.
In a tragic turn of events, his body was found on Sunday a few kilometres from his residence with two bullet wounds.
Longe said the incident appears more like an assassination rather than kidnapping and assured the people of bringing the perpetrators to book.