BREAKING: Atiku's Campaign DG Escapes Assassination Attempt
- Abiye Sekibo, the campaign director of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign council in Rivers state has escaped an assassination move
- The PDP chieftain disclosed that the gunmen were putting on police uniforms and set bullets on his bulletproof Land Cruiser Jeep
- Sekibo said he was on an inspection visit to the proposed venue of the PDP presidential campaign venue when he was attacked and the gunmen also set fire to the venue
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Port Harcourt, Rivers - Abiye Sekibo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council's (PCC) director general in Rivers state, has escaped being assassinated by the whiskers at midnight on Thursday, February 9.
According to The Punch, the attackers dressed in police uniforms and fired shots at the vehicle of the PDP chieftain, a Land Cruiser bulletproof jeep.
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Sekibo was said to have visited the Rainbow Town in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital to inspect the proposed venue of the presidential campaign rally of the party.
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Confirming the attack at a press briefing on Friday, Sekibo said the gunmen rained bullets on his car and set the proposed venue on fire while policemen watched.
He said:
“As we approached the site, those policemen who were watching the fire opened fire on our vehicle. I looked at the Hilux vehicles, they were police Hilux vehicles attached to the Governor of Rivers State.”
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The former governor of Lagos state disclosed that Tinubu will defeat PDP's Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party's Peter Obi and NNPP's Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Fashola explained that both Atiku, Kwankwaso and Obi were one when APC defeated PDP in 2019, asking how any of them will defeat the ruling party after being divided into 3.
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Dele Momodu, the director of strategic communications of the PDP PCC, has said he has moved on after losing the party's presidential ticket.
The spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa presidential campaign organisation also dismissed the claim that the north is dominating the leadership of the party and wanted the south to be vice.
According to Momodu, the crisis rocking the PDP started when Nyesom Wike of Rivers state lost his bid to become the vice presidential candidate of the party.
Source: Legit.ng
