Suspected thugs, on Sunday evening, attacked supporters of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in Omuma local government area of Rivers State.
A source in the area told LEADERSHIP that the PDP members, numbering about three were pasting Atiku’s campaign posters when they were attacked with matchetes.
The source identified one of the victims as Nwankwoala Udo, from Umuobuo village in the local government area.
Insisting that the attackers were also PDP members from the area, he said the three victims were later taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention.
Efforts to get the PDP publicity secretary in the state, Tambari Sydney Gbara, to react to the development, proved abortive.
However, a member of the party in the State, who spoke to LEADERSHIP on the condition of anonymity, said there was no how the party would have sent thugs to attack its own members in the State.
LEADERSHIP reports that there has been no love lost between Atiku and the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, since after the emergence of the former as the PDP presidential candidate for the 2023 general election.
