Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP, Anambra South) on Monday spoke with journalists after surviving assassination on Enugwu Ukwu road in Anambra.
Ubah was on his way to Nnewi his country home on Sunday night when he was ambushed.
Gunmen opened fire on the convoy and left several persons dead including civilians at the scene of the incident.
Ubah told journalists that the gunmen killed two of his aides — Obum Ikechukwu and Goodness Mathias.
The legislator added that some of his security aides from the police and Department of State Services (DSS) were also killed.
Anambra police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga had yet to give the casualty figure as of press time.
‘’The commissioner of police, Mr Echeng Echeng visited the scene and there were blood stains at the place indicative of the fact that the attack was bloody, but to give the number I cannot say anything on that,” he said.