Explosives suspected to be bomb was said to have rocked the PDP secretariat along the Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar, Cross River. Police said suspected hoodlums who could not gain entry into the secretariat due to its tight security resulted in throwing explosive device into the premises.
Part of a statement released by the Police Public
Relations Officer in the state, Hogan Bassey, read, “Early today, November 24,
at about 0535 hours, hoodlums who were unable to penetrate the heavily
fortified secretariat by officers and men of the command threw an explosive
device from behind the premises into the building. The explosion only shattered
some louvers on the ground floor. No life was lost and nobody sustained
injury.”
The state PDP
chairman, Mr. John Okon, said, “I understand they threw in a bomb or dynamite
or something. The police are there and the anti-bomb squad are on the way. We
will not be able to use the secretariat for the ward congresses; we will be
using the Presidential Lodge. All the electoral officers are collecting their
materials and going to the field. The windows and other things inside the
office have been destroyed.”
A resident who stays around the secretariat stated that the effect of the blast was felt in his house 300 metres away.
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