Police foils attempt to bomb C'River PDP Secretariat

…as Duke, Idagbo praise delegates election
The Police in Calabar, Cross River State yesterday said some hoodlums

threw an explosive device into the state secretariat of the Peoples

Democratic Party (PDP) located along the Murtala Muhammed Highway.

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A statement signed by the Police Public Relation Officer, Mr Hogan Bassey

said no life was lost in the incident which occurred in the wee hours of

the day.
“Early today, 24th November, 2014, at about 0535 hours, hoodlums who were

unable to penetrate the heavily fortified secretariat by officers and men

of the Command, threw an explosive device from behind the premises into

the building. The explosion only shattered some louvers on the ground

floor. No life was lost nor anybody sustained injury,” the statement read.

Bassey said normalcy ‎was quickly restored with the distribution of

materials for the congresses done on time.
‎Meanwhile, some prominent indigenes of the state including the

Minister for Culture and Tourism, High Chief Edem Duke and a leading

governorship aspirant , Barr Lego Idagbo, have commended the peaceful

conduct of the rescheduled delegates election yesterday, while condemning

the attack on the party secretariat.
Duke described the delegates election as peaceful, free and fair.

He however, urged the PDP family in the state to guard the peace in the

state and shun acts that are inconsistent with the nature of the people of

the state.
On his part, Idagbo gave a thumps up to the exercise, saying “it was

transparent, rancour-free, free and fair.”
‎He said the attack on the party secretariat was the handiwork of

desperate politicians bent on capturing power at all cost.

According to him, “only politicians who do not have the support of the

people resort to clandestine activities such as this.”

While condemning the act in totality, he urged security agencies to fish

out the perpetrators of the dastardly act and be made to face the full

weight of the law to serve as a deterrent to others.

In a related development, a Federal High Court In Abuja yesterday

dismissed a suit filed by Jones Tangban on the November 1, delegate

election, for lack of jurisdiction.
 
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