Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers state, on Wednesday, June 26, described the failed attempt to detonate an explosive device at the Hotel Presidential, a five-star hotel in Port Harcourt, as a deliberate plot to strengthen the call for a state of emergency in the state.

As reported by The Nation, Fubara accused the pro-Nyesom Wike supporters of carrying out the plot.

Speaking further, he described Wike’s men as haters, who wanted to undermine the state to achieve their evil plans.

The Rivers governor spoke when he received a delegation of the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, led by its chairman, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, to Government House in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.

Fubara disclosed that the youths were hired to engage in a protest to demand for extension of tenure of former local government chairmen, who had served out their statutory three-year term.

He said the protesters and their sponsors were aware that some members of the National Assembly were guests at the Hotel Presidential, which was why they attempted to detonate an explosive device near the facility to give reason to support the call for a state of emergency at the plenary, Daily Trust reported.

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“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.

“But you see, when you are with God, even your own 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 Rivers governor said it seemed that the law was silent or inactive to take its course over offenders because somebody appeared to be bigger than the law on the agitation.

He insisted that there was nowhere in the country where tenure elongation for former local government chairmen had been an issue.

TheNGblog understands that the rift between Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Governor Fubara worsened recently following the tenure expiration of the state local government chairmen.