Abe Condemns Attack On Apc Supporters In Rivers

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senting Rivers South-East in the National Assembly Candidate for the 2015 senatorial election, Senator Magnus Abe has condemned recent attack on buses conveying APC faithful to the party’s Presidential campaign rally in Port Harcourt by yet to be identified gunmen.
The lawmaker, who is seeking re-election into the senate described the attacks that led to various degrees of gunshot injuries on several persons as another politically motivated attempt on the lives of the people in the series of onslaught on members of the party and expressed worry over the security of voters during this year’s general elections.
Abe noted that attacks on APC members had become incessant without appropriate response from security operatives to unmask the perpetrators which, according to him, portrays the operatives as insincere and compromised in their sacred service to the people.
“Since the Rivers crisis, security has become political; every gathering in Bori is preceded by gunfire and open display of banditry as well as terror, yet not one is ever arrested or prosecuted”, he said.
While lamenting that the country has become a theatre for insurgency, Abe said a  situation where people are being killed in the North over their religious beliefs, and are being attacked, and shot in the south over political affiliation was unacceptable, insisting that the trend if not checked, may degenerate into anarchy.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) urged security agencies particularly the Police to bring the perpetrators of the Tuesday attack  to book, with a view to nipping the ceaseless slaughtering of innocent Nigerians in Rivers State to an end.
“I pray that Rivers people do not reach the conclusion that they have no one to protect them except themselves” Abe declared.