A group of hoodlums, allegedly affiliated with the “End Bad Governance” movement, attacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Secretariat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday evening.
The assailants vandalized the party’s premises, pulling down a giant billboard, destroying the entrance gate, and damaging canopies providing shelter for security personnel.
The hoodlums were eventually repelled, but not before causing significant damage to the Secretariat. The motive behind the attack is unclear, but it appears to be a targeted assault on the APC’s presence in the state.
The Care Taker Committee Chairman of APC in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha who spoke to Journalists in Port Harcourt on Wednesday about the incident condemned the vandalization of its Aba Port Harcourt road party Secretariat in Port Harcourt.
Chief Okocha said he suspected that the vandalization of its party Secretariat was sponsored by vested interest who he said are afraid of the party’s intimidating rising profile in the state.
Chief Okocha said the attack was pre-determined to get at President Tinubu and make Rivers State the epe centre of protest.
He said , “Today the issue on point is the vandalization of the APC Secretariat situated at Port Harcourt Aba Express Road in Port Harcourt by hoodlums who were sponsored by a source we have identified.We are not scared to name the source because the situation has become very political. Of course why is that it’s only APC that was isolated for destruction.
“But the million of those attacks will not stop us in APC from speaking for the people of Rivers State. it will not stop us from being diametrically opposed to a government that is clueless. It can’t stop us. Is like when the Rivers State House of Assembly was pulled down it did not stop the Assembly from sitting.
” Our Secretariat was attacked yesterday and they left us with a note that they are coming back again and I dont know weather their coming back again will be today or some other time because it was about 5.00pm on Tuesday that they vandalized the Secretariat complex .
” I am aware and we were briefed that there are plans to make Rivers State the epe centre of protest for obvious reasons. One reason is that they need to get to Mr President that Mr President is not seem to be supporting them.”
Chief Okocha called on the Rivers State Police Command to beef up security around and within its party Secretariat as to prevent further attack.
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