The Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged a “grand plot by certain desperate politicians in the state to eliminate its chairman, Bro Felix Obuah.”

The party in a statement by Obuah’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, described the alleged plot as callous and barbaric. It pointed in the direction of the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying: “By this strange and subterranean move has added a new dangerous dimension to party politics in the state.”

The statement warned that violence in whatever form remains an ill wind that blows no one any good and must be discarded for the sake of greater number of innocent Rivers people and other Nigerians and nationals living in the state.

It noted that politics and, by extension, democracy, will cease to be the best form of government if it is not devoid of bitterness and bloodletting.

“It is therefore on this note, that the Nigerian government and indeed, all well meaning Nigerians should not turn their eyes the other way over the shocking plot by the APC chieftains in Rivers State to incite crisis in some parts of the State as the re-run State and National Assembly elections approach, and using same as a smokescreen to pick on those designated for elimination including our state chairman, Felix Obuah,” the party warned.

Rivers PDP commended “the boldness of the Omoku Development Initiative for uncovering and raising alarm over the sinister plot by the APC in the state,” stressing that “any attempt to make real this plot will not augur well for the state.”

“Everybody while being watchful and alert to such plots by the APC should freely go about their businesses without any fear of unnecessary attack because this state belongs to all of us,” Rivers PDP advised.

•Photo shows Rivers PDP Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah.