Hoodlums kill Benue NDC chair

The chairman of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, Fiidi Council Ward in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State, Igbu Terhemen, has been killed. According to Daily Trust, Terhemen was attacked at about 2:00am by suspected hoodlums.

He was allegedly tied with ropes, injected with substances suspected to be poisonous and abandoned near his residence. Terhemen was reportedly found in an almost unconscious state, unable to speak or communicate, before he eventually died.

The Punch reports that suspected hoodlums killed him, while Daily Trust adds that Terhemen had left his residence on Tuesday evening to watch a local football match but did not return home. His phone was discovered on him when he was taken to the morgue, and there was a needle-like injury on his body.

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