An explosion has destroyed the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Okrika LGA, Rivers state.
The explosion, which reportedly occurred around 3:14 a.m on Sunday, January 10, destroyed the secretariat building.
The chairman of the party in the local government, Christian Asifamaka, told journalists that unknown persons used dynamite to attack the party’s office in Abam-Ama in the early hours of the day.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the administration of President Jonathan, has hatched a plot to postpone next month’s general elections.
The opposition party stated that the recently released findings of the Department of State Security on its raid of the APC Data Centre, is part of the plan to raise doubts about “the integrity of the voter’s register to be used for the forthcoming polls, and subsequently force a postponement of the elections”.
This allegation was made by Lai Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a press conference on Sunday, January 11, at the APC Data Centre, Ikeja, Lagos.
Ahead of the February 14 presidential election, the Unity Party of Nigeria says it has not adopted any presidential candidate.
The National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Sokoto, clarified this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday.
“The Leadership of the Unity Party of Nigeria did not authorised the suspended National Chairman nor direct any official of the party at any level to commit the party to support any presidential candidate,’’ it said.
President Goodluck Jonathan has compared the country’s present situation to the challenges faced by the Israelites on their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land.
The president said Nigeria would get to its “promised land” just like the Israelites eventually made it to Canaan in spite of the encumbrances they faced along the way.
Jonathan made the comments on Sunday, January 11, during the wedding thanksgiving service of his foster daughter at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Abuja.
Four people have been confirmed dead following a bomb blast via suicide in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum on Sunday.
Two female suicide bombers, one of them aged about 15, were reported to have blown themselves up in a crowded market at Kasuwar Jagwal mobile phone market in the commercial capital of Yobe State.
This comes just a day after a young girl about 10 years of age killed 19 in Maiduguri, in Borno State.
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