Port Harcourt - Unknown assailants threw
dynamite at an opposition coalition secretariat in
Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta on Friday,
destroying the building but not claiming any
casualties, police and party officials said.
"Around 3 a.m. today the youths attacked the
APC secretariat at Ngor. The entire building was
razed to the ground in the fire. I'm calling on the
commissioner of police to investigate the matter,"
local opposition All Progressives Congress (APC)
official Ikwut Emmanuel said of the incident in
Rivers state.
Ahmed Muhammad, a police spokesman for
Rivers, confirmed the incident but had no details
as it was still being investigated, he said.
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Nigeria holds presidential and governorship
elections on Feb. 14 that are likely to be its
closest and hardest-contested since the end of
military rule in 1999, with President Goodluck
Jonathan facing off against former military ruler
Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.
Violence is rising ahead of the polls, and Rivers
state, where outgoing Governor Rotimi Ameachi
defected to the APC in 2013, is considered one of
the major flashpoints.
Nigeria has a history of political thuggery and
intimidation that have often marred its polls. The
insurgency by Islamist group Boko Haram, which
wants to establish an Islamic state in northeast
Nigeria, is also surging ahead of the election.
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