An explosion suspected to be from a dynamite on Monday morning rocked the secretariat of the Action People’s Party (APP) located in the GRA area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The attack, LEADERSHIP gathered, caused extensive damage to the building in New GRA, Port Harcourt, leading to the destruction of windows, doors and other property belonging to the party.
It was observed that the two-storey building located in the highbrow area of the New GRA, was still undergoing renovation at the time of the attack.
Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his supporters and loyalists are rumoured to be planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APP, if the face-off between him and the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, continues.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the G-60 lawmakers in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, has accused supporters of Wike, who is also the immediate-past governor of Rivers State, of being behind the attack at the APP secretariat in Port Harcourt.
Ugochinyere, who represents Ideato-South/Ideato-North Federal Constituency of Imo State, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists in Port Harcourt.
He urged President Bola Tinubu to direct security agencies to fish out and prosecute the bombers before they bring down democracy.
The lawmaker said: “Monday, around 2:00am, I received a call from the National Chairman of one of our country’s rising opposition parties, APP (Action People’s Party) who told me that he had just narrowly escaped death with the bombing of their new State Party HQ in Rivers State. Mr. President, they will bomb down this democracy.
Stop these men now before it’s too late.
“Political extremists and terrorists who are desperate to make Rivers State ungovernable bombed the party headquarters, which was just renovated ahead of the Rivers LGA Election, in which the APP is tipped to win by a landslide as the party of popular choice in Rivers State.
“As the spokesperson of the Opposition Coalition CUPP/all elected officers both in parliament and executive Nationwide whose parties belong to the CUPP Alliance, I want to categorically state that the bombing of Opposition parties and their offices is now an extremely low level of madness that has been fueled by those who claim to be working for ruling government.
“This is the 3rd time bombings have allegedly been introduced by these Abuja elements who want to make Rivers ungovernable, and this time, Mr President, you have to take a hard decision, as silence will mean that their devilish action is acceptable.
“Let the security agencies immediately fish out the perpetrators of these dastardly acts, which are acts of National terrorism capable of bombing our democracy if not checked. Act now, Mr President, as the history of your action or inaction will be recorded for you, and this growing criminal terrorism action can spiral into other hands and cause bigger harm to our democracy.”
