A loud explosion has reportedly rocked the secretariat of the faction of the All Progressives Congress led by Tony Okocha, ex-chairman of the APC caretaker committee in Rivers state.
According to Channels Television, the explosion is believed to be a result of a dynamite which reportedly ripped through the APC secretariat main entrance, security house and sections of an adjacent structure.
It was said to have occurred in the early hours of Saturday ahead of the LG election.
“About 3:20am, some gun-trotting young men with their explosives and all that, came here and dropped the first explosive, maybe because the one they dropped here did not detonate, they came back the second time to burn the structure – look at the security house is gone,” Channels TV quoted Okocha as saying.
“Behind me you will see that there was also an attempt, our people came and we were able to quench the fire.
“The incident was politically motivated and blamed the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, whom he said had earlier declared war over the local government election.
“Is APC secretariat here any voting unit? There is no voting unit here. So, it was deliberate to see how they can annihilate us, it is deliberate to see how they can embarrass us, it is deliberate to see how they can decimate us.”
The Rivers LGA election is holding amid the feud between Nyesom Wike, FCT minister, and governor Siminalayi Fubara.
A court order had also restrained the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other security agencies from providing security during the poll.
However, the Rivers governor said the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) will conduct the LGA election and that the court order did not stop the conduct of the election.
