Hoodlums broke into the Port Harcourt residence of Senator Lee Ledogo Maeba, a staunch supporter of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, destroying some vehicles.
An eyewitness told Daily Trust that the thugs armed with dangerous weapons attacked the elder brother of Meaba who resides in the building located in Port Harcourt.
Maeba fell out with Governor Nyesom Wike after the Governor distanced himself from Atiku’s campaign.
The Rivers State Government had revoked the Certificate of Occupancy of land allocated to the former Senator at the Golf Course axis of GRA in Port Harcourt.
Maeba is the chairman of the PDP presidential campaign council in Rivers State.
He represented Rivers South-East in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
Below are the pictures of destroyed vehicles:
Attack on Maebe’s property is not the first in Rivers State. Last month, thugs suspected to be from a camp of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State attacked some supporters of the same party, but loyal to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate.
It was gathered that the coordinator of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in Omuma LGA, Nnamdi Nwogu, was among the persons attacked and that the victims were inflicted with machete cuts and gunshot wounds.
The incident happened at Eberi-Omuma, Omuma Local Government Area of the State on 6 November, 2022.
The victims were pasting the campaign posters of the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku before they were attacked.
It was alleged that the attack was perpetrated on the direction of a PDP leader in the area opposed to the candidacy of Atiku.
The PDP presidential campaign director in the area, Nwogu, while confirming the development, said over 30 youths with machetes and guns pounced on them while they were pasting Atiku’s campaign poster.
He alleged that the attack was ordered by a political leader in the area, saying one of Atiku’s supporters who happened to be his assistant, Udochukwu Nwakpala, was shot.
The PDP leader disclosed that Nwakpala was in a critical condition, but already receiving attention in an undisclosed hospital.