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Deputy governor of Anambra escapes assassination bid

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    The deputy governor of Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Anambra escaped assassination on Thursday last but his aide, police Sergeant Joseph Ada, was shot dead, news reports said on Monday. Deputy Governor Chinedu Emeka was attacked in his car near his home in Onitsha, AFP reported, quoting Police Commissioner Abdulkadri Ahmed. The agency gave no motive for the killing but said Emeka and Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju, both of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, were at loggerheads over the choice of a speaker for the state legislature.

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