Gunmen Disrupt APC Rally In Wike's LGA

One APC member named [withheld] have said, The All Progressives Congress (APC) rally at Elioparanwo-Port Harcourt, Ward Nine in Obio\Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State was yesterday disturbed by suspected thugs believed to be sent by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“The APC’s rally in Elioparanwo was disrupted by gunmen who shot some APC members, while so many others escaped with different degrees of injuries. I was only lucky to have escaped too, though I sustained injuries and I am now at the hospital receiving treatment.
“Barr. Tasie Wike was hit by a bullet. Even the Rivers State’s non-indigenes’ Chairman, Chief Okokoba, was hit by a stray bullet and currently nobody knows his whereabouts.”
Rivers Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Muhammad Kidaya Ahmad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) confirmed the incident and said that the organizers of the rally failed to inform the police of the event.
Another person present said: “Reports at my disposal indicate that no life was lost, but some persons sustained injuries.
The rally was without police knowledge. We only knew about it when there was pandemonium. Our quick response arrested the situation.”
The governorship candidate of the PDP and immediate-past Minister of State for Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, hails from neighbouring Rumueprikom-Port Harcourt, also in Obio/Akpor LGA.
On thursday, hundreds of APC members had come out and protested the indiscriminate arrests and killings also coupled with the disruption of their rallies by suspected PDP thugs.
The leader of the protest, who is also Rivers Commissioner for Agriculture, Emma Chindah said that the APC members would not leave the police headquarters on Moscow Road in Port Harcourt until they were able to get justice.