There has been an 'attack' on Abiye Sekibo, director-general of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council in Rivers.
However, there is current confusion over the identity of the attackers.
Speaking at a media briefing on Friday, Sekibo said he received a call on Thursday night that the venue for the campaign rally of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP, was on fire.“At about 11:30pm, I received a call and the caller said the equipment that is at the site being prepared for the PDP presidential rally is on fire. I said let me go and see for myself. I asked my driver to bring out the car and three policemen to let’s go and see what is happening there,” he said.
“As we approached them, I was about to tell my police to stop so that I can talk to the policemen . The next thing, these policemen watching the fire opened fire on my vehicle. They started shooting at my vehicle. I told the driver to keep moving. So we drove off.“I realise and looked at these vehicles that they were police Hilux vehicles attached to the governor of Rivers state. They shot one of our tyres. As we were going, the driver had difficulty driving.
Sekibo asked Usman Baba, inspector-general of police , to caution the officers attached to the Rivers government house against being “used” by the state.
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