The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalaya Fubara, has lamented the recent failed attempt to bomb the Hotel Presidential located in the State Capital, Port Harcourt.
The Governor made this lamentation while speaking on the latest dimension to the political crisis that have enveloped the State since his assumption of office.
Speaking on the failed bomb incident, Fubara accused supporters of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of attempting to bomb the Hotel Presidential.
According to the Governor, the failed bombing was an attempt to justify the move to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State.
Fubara made the claim while receiving a delegation from the Senate Committee on Privatization and Commercialization, led by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, in Port Harcourt.
He said, “As a matter of fact, let me tell you, I know of everything that is happening. Yesterday (Tuesday), they (protesters) were aware that you are in the State. So, there was an attempt to create a serious problem.
“In fact, there was a plan to detonate dynamite at the Hotel Presidential because you people were there. But this God that we serve. It happened that the man who was trying to do it detonated it but just a few seconds after, it blew his hands off.
“The idea was that as you were hearing the state of emergency, it will be. So that by the time they finish when you return to have your sitting tomorrow (Thursday), the debate will be from somebody from this State who called you people to tell you not to come.
“He will now raise the issue of state of emergency. And say, after all, distinguished colleagues saw it happen while you were in Rivers State. That you saw what happened,” the Governor bemoaned.
source: Daily Post
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