The police said yesterday that it discovered a device suspected to be Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat along Abakaliki Enugu Expressway, Ebonyi State.
The State Police Command, which confirmed this, said the state government subsequently held an emergency security summoned by Governor David Umahi.
Speaking after the meeting, Governor David Umahi alleged that all available security briefs from the Commissioner of Police and other security chiefs in the state pointed to desperation of some persons in the opposition party.
“The police discovered bomb in our PDP secretariat and from all accounts, the and information from the security briefs from the commissioner of police, the IED was a little bit old showing that it must have been planted by the desperate opposition people in one of the days I was at the secretariat for a meeting but God did not allow the thing to detonate and God will never allow it to happen to us”
“Our suspects are the desperate opposition people who have become jobless and aggressive ahead of the 2019 general election because they think they can cease power by all means.
“I have directed the security chiefs to make full scale investigation into the incident and report to their various headquarters while we as government will report to Mr President”, he said.
