Leadership (Abuja)
Osa Okhomina
16 November 2009
Yenagoa — The renewed crisis rocking the Bayelsa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a violent dimension weekend with the invasion of the country home of the State Chairman, Chief Rufus Abadi by unidentified gunmen in the early hours of Saturday.
Armed with dynamites and sophisticated weapons, they were said to have caused family members and indigenes of the community to run for safety.
The gunmen, according to close aides to the embattled party chairman, spent hours at the Party Chairman residence in search of his whereabouts and threw dynamites into the building after reportedly carting away over N.7million kept in a safe as wages for some workers at the building.
Leadership gathered yesterday that the gunmen, made up of youths, arrived his home at about 12.30am on Saturday and left at about 2.30am without any resistance from community members, who went into hiding to avoid being caught in the sporadic shooting into the building.
In a statement issued yesterday by the Personal Assistant to the Party Chairman, Mr. Abiri Jones, said the mission was to assassinate his boss saying the invasion was based on the excuse he made for not attending the controversial Friday meeting of the party in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Jones Abiri stated that "we have a reason to suspect that the non-attendance of the party chairman at the purported PDP meeting in Yenagoa on Friday may have been responsible for the attack."
"We have reported to the 'A' Division of the State Police Command and they have detailed the Otuan Division to conduct preliminary investigation."
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