Update: Gunmen Attack Atiku’s Campaign DG In Rivers [Photos]

Unknown gunmen have allegedly attempted to assassinate the Director-General of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign council in Rivers, Abiye Sekibo, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Sekibo was reportedly attacked on Thursday night when he went to inspect the venue of a proposed presidential rally of the Peoples Democratic Party.

According to the former Minister of Transportation in the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, the assailants were allegedly sponsored by the state Governor, Nyesom Wike.

“It is Wike and his people,” the former minister told The Whistler in a phone interview when asked who the attackers were.

Naija News learnt that gunmen dressed in police uniform opened fire on Sekibo’s vehicle, a Land Cruiser bulletproof jeep at the Rainbow Town.

Confirming the incident at a news briefing Friday, Sekibo said his car was riddled with bullets and the venue of the proposed rally set on fire, while policemen watched the inferno

He said: “As we approached the site, those policemen who were watching the inferno opened fire on our vehicle. I looked at the Hilux vehicles, they were police Hilux vehicles attached to the Governor of Rivers State.”