Rivers Police confirm attack on party office

The Rivers Police Command said it had received a report of an
attack on the All Progressives Congress office at Ngor, Andoni
Local Government Area, early on Friday.
Mr Ahmad Muhammad, a DSP, and public relations officer of the
command, said this in an interview with Newsmen in Port Harcourt
on Friday.
‘’ We have received a report of the incident. Details are sketchy, but
we have commenced investigation into the incident,’’Muhammad
said.
Mr Oromte Erefokuma, Chairman of the party in Andoni local
government, said the party office was destroyed with dynamite in
the early hours of Friday.
‘’ The APC office at Ngor was attacked by unknown persons in the
early hours of Friday. Nobody was hurt, but the office was
destroyed,’’ he said.
Muhammad also said the police had commenced search for
gunmen who attacked the campaign team of Mr Nyesom Wike,
governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in
Rivers, at Abua town, in Abua/Odual Local Government.
He said the gunmen opened fire on the campaign team on Jan. 15
in the afternoon.
‘’ Policemen accompanying the team responded and chased away
the gunmen.
‘’Nobody was hurt. No arrest was made and we have commenced
serious manhunt for the perpetrators of the act,’’ the police
spokesperson s