Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State has accused supporters of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, of attempting to bomb the Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Fubara claimed that the failed bombing was an attempt to justify the move to declare a state of emergency in the state.
He made the claim while receiving a delegation from the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, led by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, in Port Harcourt.
According to Fubara: “As a matter of fact, let me tell you, I know of everything that is happening. Yesterday (Tuesday), they (protesters) were aware that you are in the state. So, there was an attempt to create a serious problem.
“In fact, there was a plan to detonate dynamite at the Hotel Presidential because you people were there. But this God that we serve, it happened that the man who was trying to do it detonated it but just a few seconds after, it blew his hands off.
“The idea was that as you were hearing the state of emergency, it will be so that by the time they finish when you return to have your sitting tomorrow (Thursday), the debate will be from somebody from this state who called you people to tell you not to come.
“He will now raise the issue of state of emergency, and say, after all, distinguished colleagues saw it happen while you were in Rivers State, that you saw what happened.”