Unknown Gunmen Attack APC Gathering in Asarama, Andoni LGA Rivers

Unknown gunmen today dispersed the gathering of the Rivers State All Progressive Congress, APC, in Asarama in Andoni local Government area of the state where Chief Mowan Etete, the immediate past Special Adviser to Governor Nyesom Wike on Political Affairs was decamping to APC.

 

Etete who resigned from his post from Governor Wike’s government about a month ago, complained of alleged underdevelopment of his area by the administration he is serving.

 

Although the reports from the riverine community remained sketchy at press time, it was however gathered that no sooner had the state APC Chairman Mr. Ojukaiye Flag Amachree took charge of the ceremony than gunmen started shooting to scare the gathering.

 

There was a fierce intervention of the security agents who returned fire with life bullets and teargas canisters  at the direction of the hoodlums before normalcy was restored.

 

Before the response of the security agents, loyalists of the party and their supporters scampered for safety in different directions in the nearby bush.

 

There were no report of casualties at the time of filing this report but a Journalist who was the event called from his hiding in the  bush said bullets missed him by whiskers.

 

It noteworthy that the Mr. Uche Secondus, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Tele Ikuru, the former Deputy Governor of Rivers state is from Andoni local government area.

 

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Also, Davies Ikanya, the immediate past State Chairman of APC is also from Andoni local government area.

 

Rivers State Police Command was yet to react on the incident at press time.