Rivers State Commissioner Blasts PDP Secretary over Accusations of Involvement in Okrika Attack
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Sampson Parker has addressed claims by the Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, Ibibia Walter that he was involved in the attack during the All Progressives Congress rally held in Okrika.
Walter had on a national television, blamed the APC party leadership tussle in the Local government for the attack which claimed a policeman’s life.
Parker has now replied the PDP secretary at a media briefing in Port Harcourt, saying claims by the PDP were aimed at causing disaffection between him and the State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi.
He said: “It is my considered opinion that Walter’s mission on the show was to incriminate me in something he knows I know nothing about.
“His (Walter) submissions and argument on that show stood common sense in its head. That he had the gall to suggest that APC members in Okrika mobilized indigenes and residents of Okrika and then hired gunmen to shoot at them, though would have made for a good laugh in Walter’s weird imagination is nothing short of criminal flight of fancy.
“I was not in Okrika on February 17, 2015 for the rally because I was on official assignment in Abuja.
“Gov. Amaechi as the leader of the APC appointed a leader of the party in okrika LGA. That person is not me and do not knw where Walter gets the idea that there are factions in Okrika APC.
“This is not the first time Walter Ibibia has tried to cause disaffection between me and my boss. While I await my lawyers advice, I contemplate the next steps to take concerning this episode, let me warn those who unjustifiably seek to do me harm.
“My heart goes out ot the family of the policeman who was killed at the rally and the Channels reporter that was stabbed,” Parker said.
He also advised indigenes of the state to shun every form of violence.
