One of the officers of the Nigerian Army, who was attacked during the March 9 governorship and House of Assembly elections in Rivers State, Captain Adams Salami, has undergone two surgeries within two weeks at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Port Harcourt.
Salami and another soldier, Corporal Adeosun Adebayo, were attacked at their duty post at the Obio/Akpor local government collation centre, Rumuodomanya, Port Harcourt, by armed thugs allegedly in the convoy of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.
The chief medical director of UPTH, Prof. Henry Ugboma, spoke yesterday when the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Biokpomabo Awara, visited the wounded Captain at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital.
Ugboma, who disclosed that the two surgeries were aimed at removing bullets lodged in his abdomen, said that his attackers did not want him to be alive considering of the manner he was shot.
He stated that doctors and nurses and…
