Old habits of political intolerance die hard as unidentified
men bombed the office of Nigeria’s opposition All
Progressives Congress in Abam Ama, Okrika in Okrika local
Government area of Rivers state.
The explosion which occurred at around 3:14 a.m.,
according to APC Chairman in Okrika, Christian Asifamaka,
destroyed the secretariat, bringing down the walls.
The damage was quite extensive with the Chairman’s office
being the worst hit.
“The All Progressives Congress in Okrika views this latest
attack as a deliberate provocation by our opponents, the
People’s Democratic Party to draw the APC into a battle
that would destabilize our beloved local government area.
This is unfortunate and the APC in Okrika would not allow
Okrika to become a hotbed of crises as the PDP would
wish.”
According to Asifamaka “We are Okrika people and we
know what political crises has cost our people in the past.
Our local government area has always been the worst hit in
times of politics. Our young children are the ones they use
as canon fodder. We know this and as a party have
resolved to tow only the path of peace in the interest of our
land and our children.”
The party appealed to the wife of President Goodluck
Jonathan, Patience, who is from Okrika that the land Okrika
has never spared any person who brings trouble to the
land.
“We beg our daughter to remember that the land of Okrika
has never spared any Okrika person who brings trouble to
the land or destroys it. We beg her to please call her people
in the PDP to order because Kirikese is bigger than anyone
of us and we should not destroy it.”
The statement further alleged that PDP’s resort to violence
is because they know that Okrika people have rejected them
because of their inability to attract any meaningful
development to the 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 a portion of the
Federal Government road that links the LGA to the Port
Harcourt refinery.”
The APC Chairman alleged that PDP Federal Government
denied Okrika people potable water, refusing the Rivers
State Government from providing water to Okrika people
despite proof that the level of benzene in the water in Okrika
is beyond acceptable levels.
“We can list so many injustices against the people of Okrika
by a federal government that is supposed to be sympathetic
towards us, yet the APC has continued to tow the path of
peace and unity and would continue to do so because we
are Okrika people and we love our land.
The APC chairman in Okrika local Government cautioned
Okrika people in PDP to remember that the land of Okrika
has been known to defend itself and its people against
aggression and that any Okrika person who brings crises to
the land answers for it because Politics is not a do or die
affair.
“Let us each hold our political views and try to persuade our
people in a civilized manner. This barbaric acts must stop.
Wakrike deserves better,” Asifamaka warned. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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