The
National Leader, All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on
Tuesday visited the senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial
District in the Senate, Magnus Abe, at the Bridge Hospital in London.
Abe was allegedly shot by men of the Nigerian police in Port Harcourt on Sunday with a rubber bullet during a political rally.
This was contained in a statement signed by one of Tinubu’s aides, Mr. Sunday Dare, on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, following the attack on their
son by the police, leaders of thought from the four local governments
that make up Ogoniland have warned that they would begin the process of
declaring policemen operating in their area persona non grata.
The leaders, who met in Port Harcourt on
Tuesday, cautioned that they would not hesitate to chase away security
operatives in Ogoniland should the incident that led to the
hospitalisation of Abe, repeat itself.
Justice Peter Akere, who read a
communiqué signed by him as the Chairman of Ogoni Leaders of Thought and
two others, called for the immediate investigation into the “near
assassination” of their son.
Akere recalled that the people of Ogoni
lost their first generation of leaders in a similar fashion, adding that
they (Ogoni) would not tolerate any form of violence that would lead to
the death of any Ogoni man.
“The entire Ogoni nationality condemns
in very strong terms the assassination attempt on the life of our son,
Senator Magnus Abe.
“This event provokes a bitter reminder
of the events of our recent past that led to the killing of our first
generation leaders by the Nigerian State. Ogoni people will not stand by
and watch a repeat of such dastardly actions that threatens the life of
an Ogoni person.
“We remind the Nigerian nation and
indeed the world that the occupation of the office of the President of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria by a Niger Deltan is the product of the
Ogoni struggle and blood for which we have not benefitted, not even the
implementation of the UNEP report on Ogoni land,” Akere said.
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