by Anike Jacobs

An explosion rocked the All Progressives Congress secretariat in Abam Ama, Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State on Sunday.

The APC Chairman in the LGA, Mr. Christian Asifamak, who confirmed the incident to journalists, said that his office was the worst hit as the entire wall was pulled down by the impact of the explosion.

“In the early hours of Sunday, some unknown group of persons threw dynamite into our party secretariat,” he explained, lamenting that the attack was   “a deliberate provocation by our opponents, the Peoples Democratic Party, to draw the APC into a battle that could destabilise our LGA. The APC in Okrika would not allow Okrika to become a hotbed of crises as the PDP would wish.”

Asifamak claimed that the PDP had resorted to violence because of its rejection by the Okrika for failing to bring development to their LGA.

“Till now the East-West Road through which we access our community has been left abandoned by a PDP-led Federal Government while Governor Chibuike Amaechi who is not an Okrika man built a ring road in Okrika and also rebuilt the portion of the federal road that links the LGA to the Port Harcourt refinery.

AWe however wish to warn our brothers in the PDP to remember that the land of Okrika has been known to defend itself and its people against aggression and that any Okrika person who brings crisis to the land answers for it.”

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, said the police were already investigating the explosion.

“The command is aware of the incident (in Okrika). Information at my disposal is sketchy. However, investigation has commenced,” Ahmad said.

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