The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has set up a nine-man committee to investigate the bombing of its secretariat in Rivers State on October 5, 2024.
Chairman of APC in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, announced the setting up of the committee while briefing the press shortly after a meeting of the newly-elected State Executive at the party’s secretariat in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
Okocha stated that the committee will be led by the party’s legal adviser, Kelechi Nwuzi, and that it will submit its report to the party within one month.
The APC chairman noted that the essence is to unravel the remote and immediate causes of the bombing as it was the second time the incident had occurred at the secretariat.
He decried that the incident occurred the same period that local government secretariats were torched after the local government elections in the state, but despite calls by the party, the State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara refused to include the incident in the Commission of Inquiry set up by the state.
He further stated that this is despite a Police report signed by the Police Public Relations Officer of the State Command, SP Grace Iringe-Komo confirming the bombing of the secretariat.
“So for this meeting my colleagues have asked that we address you, to let you know that the governor has proven that APC can go to hell. But as a party we will not to hell.
“The essence of government is the protection of lives and property. We are here to tell Nigerians that we are still pained by the heinous and dastardly activities of people we do not know,” he said.
Okocha, who is also the Rivers State representative at the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), while reiterating the importance of the resumption of production at the Port Harcourt refinery, stated that with the current exchange rate of the naira to the dollar, it will boost the economic well-being of the country.
He therefore called on President Bola Tinubu to always come to the aid of the party in the state where the need arises and commended him for his laudable policies geared towards leading Nigeria out of its economic woes.
