The governor of Rivers state, Siminalayi Fubara, has alleged that there was a plan to detonate a bomb near a luxury hotel as a ploy to get the federal government to declare a state of emergency in the state. The governor made the assertion when he hosted a senate delegation at the government house in Port Harcourt.
“As a matter of fact, let me tell you, I know of everything that is happening. On Tuesday, they (protesters) were aware that you are in the state. So, there was an attempt to create 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 few seconds after, it blew his hands off.
“The plan was that as you were hearing of state of emergency, it will be such that by the time they finish, when you return to have your sitting on Thursday, the debate will be from somebody from this state, who called you to tell you not to come to Rivers State. He will now raise issue of state of emergency, and say after all, distinguished colleagues saw it happen while they were in Rivers State, that you saw what happened.
“But you see, when you are with God, even your child who is planning evil, will go and tell somebody that God is with this man because he is clean, this is what my father is planning. That is what is keeping us in this state,” the governor said.
The governor also accused the national leadership of his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), of betraying the state, saying the party has failed him and his supporters.
Reports say a yet-to-be-identified man, attempted to blow up the Presidential Hotel, a highly rated hospitality facility in the state, where the senate delegation lodged, but was later arrested by the police.
