By Jimitota Onoyume

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, has called on the Police to unmask those behind the attack on the All Progressives Congress, APC, secretariat in Okrika Local Government Area of the state.

It will be recalled that dynamites were hurled into the secretariat on Sunday, destroying a portion of the building and other valuables.

The PDP also called on the Police and other security agencies to intensify their search for suspected APC members, who were allegedly destroying its campaign materials and those of the party’s governorship candidate, Chief Nyesom Wike in the state. It also condemned the APC governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, for hastily blaming the PDP for the attack on the Okrika APC secretariat, while seeing nothing wrong with the APC members, who were arrested for destroying PDP campaign materials in the state.

Meanwhile, hundreds of APC youths from Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, yesterday marched to the head- quarters of the Rivers State Police Command on Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, denouncing what they described as violence against the party in the state.

Some of the placards the protesters carried bore inscriptions accusing the Police of allegedly aiding the PDP in its alleged acts of violence.

Some of the placards read: “Police aiding PDP thugs in Obio/Akpor,” “We want Police Protection in Obio/Akpor,” “This one is not democracy, it is dictatorship,” “Police supervised manhandling of APC members in Rumuolumeni,” “Are APC members in Obio/Akpor not Nigerians?” among others.

Meanwhile, state Chairman of the PDP, Mr. Felix Obuah, who spoke through his media aide, Mr. Jerry Needam, said the party received news of the attack with sadness, adding that it might have been caused by aggrieved APC members.