The Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, escaped assassination on Thursday.
BOblog learnt that gunmen dressed in police uniform opened fire on Sekibo’s Land Cruiser bulletproof jeep at Rainbow Town in Port Harcourt.
The incident happened at about 11:30pm to 12:00 midnight on Thursday when Sekibo went to inspect the venue of a proposed presidential rally of his party.
He confirmed the attack while addressing journalists at his residence on Friday, adding that policemen attached to the Government House, Port Harcourt were behind the attack as directed by the state governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.
Sekibo, who is also a former Minister of Transport, noted that his car was riddled with bullets and the venue of the proposed rally set on fire while policemen watched the inferno.
He said: “As we approached the site, those policemen who were watching the fire opened fire on our vehicle. I looked at the Hilux vehicles, they were police Hilux vehicles attached to the Governor of Rivers State.
“We called you (journalists) to intimate you of what happened between late yesterday and early hours of today. At about 11:30pm to 12:00 midnight, I received a call and the caller said the equipment at the site that was being prepared for the PDP presidential rally are on fire.
“I told myself that is not possible but I said okay, let me go and see for myself. So, I asked my driver to bring out the car and took three policemen to go and see what is happening. The location is Rainbow Town by Amadi-Ama.
“As we approached the site, we saw a line up of Police Hilux vehicles on the right side of the road and the Policemen were looking at the fire. So, as we approached them, I was about to tell my driver to stop so that I can talk to the policemen.
“The next thing, those policemen who are watching the fire, opened fire on my vehicle. So I told my driver not to stop, but to keep on going. We drove off and were shot at from all sides. I looked at those vehicles, they were Hilux vehicles attached to the Governor of Rivers State.
“They shot one of our tyres and as we were going, the driver was finding it difficult to control the vehicle. When we got to Oando Filling Station at Trans-Amadi, I told the driver to clear by the filling station", he said.
Sekibo noted that the five Police Hilux vehicles drove past them and was heading towards Ada-George, lamenting that the governor could not withstand them arranging another site for the proposed rally.
“He sent policemen attached to him to go and destroy equipments that are clearing the place. As I speak to you now, he has barricaded the place with Government House Police, to make sure that pressmen don’t gain access to the site", the campaign DG added.
Sekibo pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to caution Governor Wike and the policemen attached to the Government House, Port Harcourt.
“Now, I am calling on the Inspector-General of Police to please, call the police attached to Nyesom Wike to order. They want to reduce this state to state of anarchy.
“I call on the President of this country, Muhammadu Buhari, to please, call the Governor of Rivers State to order. He cannot cow us; we will continue to declare our stand as supporters of Atiku Abubakar in this state. Rivers people stand for Atiku Abubakar and we will support him," he noted.
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