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THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has said that the attack on its rally in Okrika by unidentified gunmen on February 17, 2015, was aimed at eliminating its governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.

The APC explained that the state would have been plunged into a crisis that would have been difficult to resolve if the gunmen had succeeded in hitting their target.

A statement signed by the Senior Special Adviser to the State Chairman of the party, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, indicated that the APC had catalogued the sins of the Peoples Democratic Party in readiness to petition the United Nations over its (APC) challenges in the state.

If they (unidentified gunmen) had succeeded, these enemies of our democracy would have pushed the state into an unprecedented crisis; the end of which no one could have predicted, the party said.

The State Deputy Chairman of the APC, Prince Peter Odika, who is the Chairman of the investigation committee on the political violence against the party, said the panel found the Peoples Democratic Party culpable of the ugly trend in the state.

Odika, whosubmitted the committees report to the State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies IbiamuIkanya, at the partys secretariat in Port Harcourt, said the team was able to list 150 sins committed against APC by the PDP ahead of the 2015 elections.

These sins revolve around attacks against APC faithful, billboards, and LG secretariats by the misguided PDP elements in Rivers State ahead of the March/April 2015 general elections, Odika said.

He appealed that the report should be treated with the urgency it deserved before the state was plunged into crisis that could kill APC members and supporters and truncate the nations nascent democracy.

Odika disclosed that at the top of the list was the violent disruption of APCs campaign rally in Okrika, which culminated in the death of a policeman.

Receiving the report, Ikanya congratulated Odika and his committee for a job well done. He assured them that the aim of setting up the committee would be actualized and insisted that the report would be sent to the United Nations, Amnesty International, ECOWAS and other major international bodies without delay.

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