A security guard at the Action People’s Party (APP) secretariat in Rivers State has been shot amidst a deepening political crisis in the state.
The details of the attack were disclosed by Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, Opposition Coalition Spokesman and Member of the National Assembly.
It should be noted that key among the political crisis in Rivers State is the one which pits Governor Siminalayi Fubara against his predecessor Nyesom Wike over the alleged control of state resources.
Reports indicate that Fubara plans to join the APP due to Wike’s control of the structure of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Supporters of Fubara are also allegedly planning to join the APP ahead of the upcoming council polls.
In a statement titled “STOP THIS DEMOCRACY BY BOMBS AND GUNS”, Ugochinyere condemned the recent attack.
He revealed that the APP’s Rivers State party secretariat was attacked with heavy gunfire, leaving the head of security critically injured.
He wrote:
STOP THIS DEMOCRACY BY BOMBS AND GUNS.
Late last night I received a distress call from the National Chairman of one of the rising opposition political parties Action People’s Party (APP) that their Rivers State Party Secretariat was under attack with heavy gun shots raining from every corner with the head of security of the Party already shot. As it would turn out, the bullet fortunately pierced via his buttocks. He is graciously alive but critically lying at the hospital.
This attack is coming few weeks after a bomb was detonated at this same party office that left the building partially damaged and just few days after it’s renovation heavily armed gunmen opened fire with intent to kill everyone on sight. This is same method and approach used by pro-Wike supporters who during a protest carried bomb that later detonated among themselves injuring the carrier of the bomb and uptill now the police have been unable to deal with the sponsors of this daylight killers who think that the only way to regain political power that they have lost is to kill and main innocent citizens.
Let it be known that no desperate individual or group can intimidate the opposition in their defence of democracy in Rivers State and there is nothing that can ever lead to removal of the Governor even if they detonate nuclear bomb and set fire on the state as they have publicly declared.
I am calling on the president to remember the political crisis of the 60 and 80s that saw desperadoes descend on the states and regions with unimaginable crises for democracy.
This is the time for President Tinubu to act to save democracy and stop these agents of darkness from further worsening situations in the country.
Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere
Opposition Coalition Spokesman and Member of the National Assembly
4th Sept 2024
