Speaking at a press conference in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, Abe said the decision was taken after a careful review of the security situation in the district where the PDP had armed their supporters with automatic rifles and dynamites
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Abe said the Tribunal is yet to release the copies of its judgement and records to his lawyers more than six days after judgement was delivered against him and the All Progressives Congress in respect of their petition against the conduct of the senatorial election in Rivers South East Senatorial District
The marketers promised to commence immediate lifting of fuel
This was contained in a statement signed by Chairmen of the committees, Senator Paulker Emmanuel (PDP-Bayelsa Central) for Upstream and Senator Magnus Abe (PDP-Rivers South-East) for Downstream, in Abuja on Friday
The Commission had appeared before the Committee to defend its 2014 budget and present 2015 budget proposal for scrutiny
The Naira was devalued from $1 to N155 to $1 to N199, with the effect that it sold in the black market at N233 to $1 last week
Senator Abe wondered why anybody would for the sake of politics unleash terror on law abiding citizens whose only offence was engaging in legitimate political campaign in a part of the State
Abe described the attacks that led to various degrees of gunshot injuries on several persons as another politically motivated attempt on the lives of the people in the series of onslaught on members of the party
They also called on the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to investigate and prosecute the police personnel who shot at thousands of Ogoni youths that went on a peaceful protest to the Government House, Port Harcourt, over the refusal of the APC to allow Ogoni ethnic nationality produce the successor to Governor Chibuike Amaechi
The NNPC management had continuously failed to provide the committee with details of its financial transactions, claiming that it was still collating the financial information required
According to him, the NNPC is a book keeping nightmare and everyone is of the consensus view that something needs to be changed
It said for about two years now, Abe and Ake have been romancing with the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, which merged with other opposition parties to form the APC
Ake observed that the hostile approach deployed by the Police in disrupting several rallies in parts of the state had enormous implication for the whole country
Abe was on Sunday shot at by policemen who wanted to disperse a rally by Save Rivers Movement in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
Its spokesman, Ahmad Muhammad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, that the police did not dispense any bullet while dispersing a rally by Save Rivers Movement on Sunday
While the police denied shooting Abe, sources in the state government, led by Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, who is now a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, having defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, said the senator was indeed shot
However, the arrival of Senator Magnus Abe at the court premises prevented the imminent clash between the embattled local government party chairman’s supporters and the security operatives
The Speaker and the House Leader were attacked by thugs on July 9, as they arrived at the Assembly for the day’s sitting