PDP Cancels Rivers Campaign Rally Over “Insecurity”

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council has called of its rally scheduled for February 14, 2023 in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital.

Senator Lee Meaba, who spoke on behalf the campaign council in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the insecurity was responsible for the cancellation.

Meaba said the party’s Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, told the team that he does not want any blood shed in Rivers state, hence the decision to cancel the rally.

The chairman of PDP presidential campaign council in Rivers, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, was attacked in Port Harcourt last week, leaving his  vehicle riddled with bullets.

Sekibo had accused policemen attached to Rivers Government House of being responsible but Governor Nyesom Wike has since denied it.

Wike had initially revoked the use of Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium as venue of the campaign but later granted, saying some persons had been sent to dialogue with him.