Gunmen tie up security guards, set PDP secretariat on fire: RIVERS

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Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Friday stormed the PDP secretariat along Port Harcourt/Aba Expressway in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, tied up the security guards on duty, then set the secretariat on fire. Fortunately, no lives were lost and the timely intervention of people around saved the building from being destroyed by the fire.

The state Chairman of the party, Mr Felix Obuah, confirmed the incident but blamed it on those whom he said didn’t want the party’s ward congress slated for tomorrow to hold. “An attempt to burn the party secretariat has being carried out by desperate politicians who want the party to postpone the party’s ward and local Government Congresses scheduled to take place tomorrow, Saturday.

They have failed because arrangements have concluded and we are going ahead. Nobody can stop it. PDP will come tops.” “We have watching on news of some desperate politicians threatening the party,” Obuah said.

The fire is coming a few hours after about 15 governorship aspirants of the party held a mega rally at the Liberation Stadium to call on the national leadership of the party to ensure the governorship ticket did not go to Nyesom Wike who is from Ikwerre. They said it would amount to injustice if another Ikwerre man succeeded governor Chibuike Amaechi who is from Ikwerre. A few of them also accused the state leadership of the party of moving to impose Wike as the party’s candidate.

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