Suspected arsonists on Saturday morning, detonated explosives at Rivers state secretariat of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Port Harcourt.
Gatekeepers News reports that the incident occurred a few hours before the state’s Local Government election.
Video clips circulating on social media showed the damaged main gate, security house of APC secretariat, and parts of an adjoining building.
The State caretaker committee chairman of the main opposition party, Chief Tony Okocha, confirmed the incident through a statement released.
The chairman accused supporters of the state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara of the attack on the secretariat.
Okocha wrote: “At the wee hours of Saturday, pro-Fubara civilian soldiers detonated dynamites at our office.”
“The second attempt to set it ablaze was foiled as the security at the gate quickly put out the fire.”
