Rivers State governor Siminalayi Fubara, said an attempted by enemies of the State to blow up the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt, while a Senate delegation led by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu was in the premises failed to materialise.
Mr. Fubara disclosed in a statement made available to the media that protesting youths paid by some faceless individuals are working at creating mayhem in the State in order to drive home their point for a state of emergency to be declared in Rivers State.
“As a matter of fact, let me tell you, I know of everything that is happening. Yesterday (Tuesday), they (protesters) were aware that Senators were the State. So, there was an attempt to create a serious problem,” Fubara said.
“In fact, there was a plan to detonate dynamite at the Hotel Presidential were the senators were staying. But for this God that we serve; it happened that the man who was trying to detonated failed, but just few seconds after, it blew his hands off.
“But you see, when you are with God, even your own child who is planning evil, will go and tell somebody that, God is with this man because he is clean, this is what my father is planning. That is what is keeping us in this State.”
Rivers has never been short of political upheavals since the exit of former governor Nyesom Wike who is now the Federal Capital Territory Minister. The latest in the unfolding events is the local government chairmen who were reluctant to quit after their tenure expired.
“Where on earth can the tenure of local government chairmen be elongated?
“Is it that the Constitution that governs Nigeria is different from the one that operates in Rivers State? These are the very pertinent questions we should ask.
“Why should it be that when it comes to the case of Rivers State, the law is always silent? Is it that there is somebody bigger than Nigeria? That is the question I want you to go back with.
“I tell you, we know everything that is happening, and you know it, everybody knows it. We should be bold enough to look at the faces of people and tell them the truth.”
