POLITICS: An Unidentified Persons Bombed APC Secretariat In Rivers State

At about 3.14am On Sunday,January 2015, political violence witnessed in parts of the country continued with an explosion rocking the All Progressives Congress secretariat in Abam Ama, Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State. Punch learnt that unidentified persons threw dynamite into the three-storey APC secretariat at about 3.14am which caused extensive damage to the ground floor. The APC Chairman in the LGA, Mr. Christian Asifamak, who narrated the incident, 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