Rivers PDP Again Alerts Security Agencies over Fresh Threat to Law, Order

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The Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday again raised the alarm on the inciting statements to cause breach of law and order in the state allegedly by card-carrying members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the guise of civil society organisations, adding that it wants the security agencies take note of the situation.

A statement issued by the office of the state PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah, and signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, said its renewed alarm was against the backdrop of fresh threats by one Jackson Omenazu, a close ally of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and a staunch APC member during March 25 protest by the so-called International Society of Social Justice and Human Rights and Advocate for Justice  at the office of the Director for State Services (DSS) and the police in Port Harcourt.

The statement described as worrisome the unrepentant penchant to set the state on fire by APC members and surrogates, and more shocking, the effrontery to boast before the security agencies of their intentions, yet the law enforcement officers tend to turn deaf ears to such threats.

The state PDP recalled “similar alarms over pre-election APC’s macabre songs and beating of war drums to which the PDP also raised alarm but were not followed up, the result of which were the avoidable killings and destruction of properties of Rivers people in some parts of the state during the 2019 general election.

“We are calling on the security agencies for the umpteenth time that Jackson Omenazu is only fronting for Amaechi and the APC using the claimed ‘civil society organisation’ as an umbrella, and should be put under watch and better still, investigated over inciting statements against the peace of the state.”

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