combined team of security operatives during the early hours of Friday sealed a hotel, bar and a filling station in Port Harcourt, while some people, including staff of the facilities were arrested.

The facilities sealed are Preray Hotel at Eagle Island, Priscy’s Bar in Elekahia and Mega Tool Filling Station along Ojoto Street in the Diobu axis, all in the Rivers State capital.

This is coming after days after Governor Nyesom Wike’s state-wide broadcast where he alleged that some politicians were recruiting cultists and ex-convicts to destabilise the state over their 2023 political ambitions.

Though the reason for the action could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report, but it is alleged to be a clampdown on perceived political opponents.

It was gathered that a team of security operatives, including police tactical units in several patrol van, stormed the facilities in the wee hours of Friday, effected the arrests and sealed the premises

It was gathered that the sealed facilities are owned by loyalists to a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Austin Opara

Opara, a former ally of Wike, is no longer in the latter’s good books for allegedly hobnobbing with the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.

In a statement by Wike’s media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, the governor said the government was aware that owners of hotels and entertainment centres are in the process of giving out their premises to politicians and political parties as a convenient base for the gathering of “political thugs”.

The statement partly read, “Similarly, we will not allow any political party, be it the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party or the Social Democratic Party to threaten the safety and security of lives and property during the campaigns with mayhem, thuggery or violence.

“Accordingly, we have already alerted and set the security agencies on the trail of these misguided politicians and leaders of political parties and stop them in their tracks with the full weight of the law.”

The governor warned that the government will pull down hotels and other entertainment places that are linked with such criminal political activities.

When contacted, the state Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, said he was not aware of the incident saying, “I am just getting to my office. I will find out.”

It was gathered that the sealed facilities are owned by loyalists to a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Austin Opara
Opara, a former ally of Wike, is no longer in the latter’s good books for allegedly hobnobbing with the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.

Willy7:
Wike wouldn't mind returning Rivers State to pre Omehia days as governor. You can't pull down your house thinking that your enemy will be the one affected. Whether Atiku wins or lose, it doesn't really affect him as he has other things to return to. Dubai is still his abode. Wike will be the one to suffer because Rivers politics has always been one of betrayal. The next governor may come after him. He should start mending fences and closing ranks rather than digging more holes.

Kagd10:


The fact that you champion a Dubai looter shows how inept you're.

Willy7:
hey kiddo, do I know you somewhere or comprehension is your albatross? It will do your childish brain much good if you could go through my post again and this time more slowly. Don't be an e-mumu
BTW, I've never supported Tinubu nor Atiku in any of my post on Nairaland since 2007 I joined ok?

Kagd10:


Ain't you supporting him in the post I quoted?

Imagine supporting a Dubai based man who doesn't even know whatt's happening in Nigeriaa while he waits for every election period for another chance to empty Nigeria treasury after looting Nigeria's commonwealth through the privatisation he supervised as a VP.

Willy7:
maybe you want me to school you or like sagamite will say then, flog your ignorance into submission. Anyway, let me help you understand. Being a realist does not make one a supporter ok? Now tell me, who will be affected more if Rivers State burns? Atiku or Wike?
On another note, do you think a Tinubu or Obi Presidency will affect Atiku? Go and check about Intels and tell me who and who has it. Also, go and check Peter Obi's congratulatory message to Atiku when he won the primaries. Atiku has made strong friends and allies over the years and no administration will really affect him whether he is in power or not. This is not the same for Wike, he is just taking his first shot at National politics and he has realised that it's not a walkover.
As for Atiku, you don't blame him, you blame Wike for picking quarrel with everyone that would've stood by him to capture the party ticket. He thought that with Rivers money it would be a smooth ride, but then he met a shocker. Wike maybe a loyal party man being that he has not defected to any party since joining PDP, but then it doesn't make him a good politician. Wike's mouth is his greatest undoing. Do you think if the primaries is repeated today Wike will come even 3rd?
Yes,Atiku is a serial defector and not a good party man, but he doesn't vote himself, people do. They voted him in 2019 against the wish of the same Wike, and 2022 again they voted him against the same Wike, what does that tell you? Wike should relax and just finish his tenure on good note and maybe retire from active politics, or he can bid his time at the background like Tinubu waiting for a time to throw in his hat in the ring. I don't support Atiku, but in National politics Atiku no be Wike mate. BTW, why do you think he is taking much time to meet Wike for any reconciliation? My dear, there are Men in politics, there are boys in politics and there are bomboys in politics, Wike is a boy and Atiku is a man in politics. Thanks

Kagd10:


Yes, preventing Atiku at all cost is the best for Nigeria as a whole. He's looted enough already. All what he looted is enough to improve Nigeria today. We don't need him at the federal again. He's got no achievement to add to that. and He's a chronic kleptomaniac.

Willy7:
that will be for Nigerians to decide. Personally I wouldn't vote someone that relocates after election seasons nor can't visit the US as it is today without much lobbying and attaching to a diplomats entourage. Secondly, Atiku is a good politician but I don't think he will serve the interest of the common man if elected. Sadly most of our politicians only remember the common man during elections and not in policies. But among the 3 major contenders, Tinubu is the worst. His presidency will favour his cronies and sycophants. The only job that the youths will have will be task force and NURTW. They all run elitist govt.
So it's up to Nigerians to decide and make a statement with their votes this coming election.

Willy7:
that will be for Nigerians to decide. Personally I wouldn't vote someone that relocates after election seasons nor can't visit the US as it is today without much lobbying and attaching to a diplomats entourage. Secondly, Atiku is a good politician but I don't think he will serve the interest of the common man if elected. Sadly most of our politicians only remember the common man during elections and not in policies. But among the 3 major contenders, Tinubu is the worst. His presidency will favour his cronies and sycophants. The only job that the youths will have will be task force and NURTW. They all run elitist govt.
So it's up to Nigerians to decide and make a statement with their votes this coming election.

Lurdmax10:



https://punchng.com/illegal-gathering-rivers-seals-hotel-others-scores-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1660909170

Bluntguy:
Wike has started his clampdown on Atiku supporters in Rivers state. Rivers is becoming OBIdient and YUSful.

Kagd10:


Atiku isn't a good politician. Sink that into your skull. Someone without achievement but with kleptomaniac tendencies who already previously looted Nigeria's commonwealth shouldn't be brought back. Apart from the fact that there's no justification for bringing in another Northerner after an outgoing Northerner, there's no justification for bringing back our previous old looters.

Meanwhile, Tinubu is the best of them all. First, Tinubu didn't rule you or your papa nor has he ever taken any federal post.

Secondly, Tinubu's achievement and legacies in Lagos are unmatched by any of the candidates.

Willy7:
If I had known that I was schooling a supporter of someone like Tinubu, I wouldn't be wasting my time all this while,because I don't see any person supporting Tinubu as normal. First, how can you support a man whose history as regards real age, name, primary and secondary schools are all shrouded in secrecy?Secondly, how can any sane person support a man who had bullion vans coming into his house on the eve of an election which he has direct or indirect interest? Which normal person will say Tinubu that says Federal government should print more Naira notes to ameliorate the covid 19 pandemic? How can anyone with brain support someone that came to the house of a bereaved whose daughter was killed by herdsmen and all he could say was Where are the cows? Who campaigns or votes for a man that boldly told the world that he installed the calamity called Buhari upon the Nation? Who in his right sense will say a man that economic blueprint is to feed 50 million youths with agbado and cassava if recruited into the army is the best candidate? Which sane person will vote for a candidate that bribed his way into becoming the Presidential aspirant of a party and yet he never had a manifesto but had to inaugurate 40 man committee to come up with a manifesto for him? Are you telling me that you are supporting a man that has past his prime but couldn't contain his greed for power? If this coming elections was to be regional, would you in the sincerity of your heart vote for a Tinubu as the premier? But look at you today shamelessly rubbing him in the faces of sane Nigerians and campaigning for him to be President of a complex and sick Nation as Nigeria. Na God go judge you and your kind.

Kagd10:


Says the illiterate talking about a first class Bsc graduate like Tinubu who's legacies in Lagos is unmatched. You dey mad? This is Tinubu's result below confirmed by Chicago university. I repeat, Tinubu didn't rule you or your papa. Sink that into your skull.

Tinubu didn't take any federal post compared to Atiku who has no achievement whatsoever but looted Nigeria commonwealth through the privatisation he supervised as a VP. Something that's still affecting Nigeria today but miscreantts like you want the same old looter back. Atiku will only rule you in your village.