Police to investigate alleged assassination attempt on Amaechi and clash with Wike

macfranc007 November 12, 2017 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Nigerian newspapers 24/7 Adeola Opeyemi

- A violent clash occurred between security personnel of Governor Wike and those of Rotimi Amaechi on Saturday, November 11

- There were reports of an alleged assassination attempt on Amaechi after his convoy was attacked

- An investigation by the police into what transpired on Saturday has commenced

The Nigerian police said it has launched a probe into the Saturday, November 11, clash between security detail of Rivers state Governor Nyesom Wike and those of Minister of Transportation Chibuike Amaechi in Port Harcourt.

The Rivers police command spokesman, Nnamdi Omoni, has also confirmed that a probe had been launched into the incident and the involvement of policemen.

Recall that NAIJ.com previously reported that Amaechi claimed the clash started when the governor’s security aides tried to shoot him and vandalized his car.

While reacting to the incident, the All Progressives Congress (APC) called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Wike’s Chief Security Officer (CSO), Promise Wosu, a Superintendent of Police (SP), and other security personnel who were involved in the bloody clash.

In a statement by its Chairman Chief Davies Ikanya, made available by his media adviser Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the APC said: “Reports made available to us by Prince Tonye Princewill, an associate to Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who was in the same car with the Minister of Transportation, indicated that Wike’s dispatch rider pulled a pistol to assassinate Amaechi, but missed his target, after which Amaechi’s Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Mr. Seimeikumo Debewari, intervened to save the minister from further assassination attempt.

“Prince Princewill stated that he was at a loss if the attack was not an assassination attempt on the Transportation Minister, somebody should explain to him in a clearer sentence why Wike’s despatch rider failed to stop the two security vehicles of the minister, which had already crossed, but decided for whatever reasons, to block the vehicle in which the minister was driving.

“Prince Princewill also asked why the attempt by Amaechi, who was driving the car, to navigate his vehicle out of danger was prevented by two security men from Rivers governor’s convoy, who pulled their pistols to shoot him, but when Wike’s security men realised that the vehicle that the minister was driving was bullet-proofed, they resorted to hitting the jeep with their guns and in the process broke the right driving mirror and attempted to break Amaechi’s windscreen.

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“After the failed attempt to kill the Transportation Minister, his escort team was physically assaulted by Wike’s CSO and Rivers governor, with the operatives of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) on the minister’s convoy dislodged and forcibly dispossessed of one of their AK-47 rifles.”

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that Wike accused the federal government of deliberately abandoning projects in the state.

The governor said the federal government has failed to carry out any new development in Rivers state for the past two decades.

Speaking at the Chatham House in London on Monday, November 6, Wike said already existing projects in the state have also been abandoned by the federal government.

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