Governor Siminalayi Fubara has told of alleged plot to bomb Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt during the visit of Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation.
The latter’s members led by the Chairman, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, were in the state on official duty.
While receiving them on Wednesday at the Government office, Fubara, who is having internecine war with his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, said there was a plot to denote bomb by his adversaries at the hotel where the visiting senators lodged with the view to force the federal government to declare state of emergency in Rivers.
According to him, “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 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 idea was that as you were hearing state of emergency, it will be so that by the time they finish, when you return to have your sitting tomorrow (Thursday), the debate will be from somebody from this State who called you people to tell you not to come. He will now raise issue of state of emergency, and say after all, distinguished colleagues saw it happen while you were in Rivers State, that you saw what happened.
“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.”
