BLOODY ATTACK! Gunmen Invade APC Rally Venue In Patience Jonathan’s Town

Political thugs, suspected to be working for the Peoples
Democratic Party in Rivers State, invaded the venue of the
All Progressives Congress governorship rally in Okrika Local Government Area in early hours of Saturday, destroying equipment being st up for the exercise.
The armed youths, according to the APC Chairman in
Okrika, Mr. Christian Asifamaka, shot sporadically at about
3.45am at the venue of the party’s governorship campaign.
Asifamaka said in a statement that the hoodlums threw
dynamites into the National School Field venue of the rally
in Okrika, destroyed the podium already set up for the
programme and other facilities in the arena.
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience, hails from Okrika.
A statement by Asifamaka on Saturday, read, “In the wee
hours of the morning of Saturday 24, 2015 at about 3.45am, some armed youths started shooting at the venue of the APC governorship rally National School Field Okrika.
“Those setting up the sound system and the podium were
forced to flee for their lives.
“At about 4am, they started shooting explosives into the
arena and destroyed the podium, sound equipment and
some canopies. The boys came in a white Hiace bus and
allegedly came in from Igbiri, a community that shares
borders with Mrs. Jonathan’s Oba Ama community.”
The governorship rally of the Peoples Democratic Party at
the same venue on Thursday.
Rivers State Commissioner for Information and
Communication, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, said more youths had invaded the venue of the APC governorship rally for the second time and continued with the destruction of
equipment mounted at the place for the exercise,
unchallenged.
Semenitari explained that policemen, who were with
Armoured Personnel Carrier drove off, adding that APC
supporters were currently under siege in Okrika.
“Some more boys came and started destroying things at
the venue in Okrika again. The police, who were coming
with APC (Armoured Personnel Carrier), drove off. We are
without any security and are under siege in Okrika. This is
our situation as of now,” she added.