Unknown gunmen have killed the wife of Chief Ejor Ngowah Ejor, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Reports say the dead wife, Ebire Ejor Ngowah Ejor, was kidnapped in Port Harcourt on Sunday, July 5, and found dead in a remote village in the state today, July 7.

In his reaction to the incident, the PDP Chairman in the state described Ejor’s wife’s murder as “unwarranted, barbaric and shocking.”

The deceased's husband is also a former Executive Chairman of Eleme Local Government Council in Rivers.