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Battle For Rivers Gets Bloodier, Army Major, Soldier Killed by mazinfo: 11:16pm On Mar 18, 2016
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Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt
The battle for the control of Rivers State got bloodier on Thursday when a major in the Nigerian Army and a soldier were slayed in cold bold in the Abonnema creek in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of the state by yet-to-be-identified gunmen.
THISDAY gathered that a troop of soldiers from the 2 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, which was on patrol, was ambushed by people suspected to be pirates. In the exchange of gunfire, the major and soldier were gunned down, while two other soldiers were said to have sustained serious injuries.
The fatal confrontation was blamed on tomorrow’s rerun elections, in which the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is slated to take on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the control of the oil-rich state.
Up for grabs in tomorrow’s polls are the three senatorial seats in Rivers State, 12 out of the 13 federal constituencies, and 22 out of the 32 state constituency seats.
The election petition tribunals and Court of Appeal had nullified the elections of three senators, 12 House of Representatives members, and 22 state assembly members, all of the PDP, who had contested in the 2015 general election.
APC is hell bent on winning most of the seats that are up for grabs in order to make governance unbearable for the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, of the PDP and possibly impeach him in the foreseeable future, as it battles to control one of the major oil producing states in the Niger Delta. Read full story here:http://9ijaclicks..com.ng/2016/03/battle-for-rivers-gets-bloodier-army.html

Re: Battle For Rivers Gets Bloodier, Army Major, Soldier Killed by okomogo(m): 11:22pm On Mar 18, 2016
No matter what APC does, Nigerians especially rivers people will not be deceived. Not after this negative change we are experiencing. God will judge them for the innocent lives they are wasting.

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Re: Battle For Rivers Gets Bloodier, Army Major, Soldier Killed by domopps(m): 11:25pm On Mar 18, 2016
Op this news looks one sided!




My personal opinion tho!




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Re: Battle For Rivers Gets Bloodier, Army Major, Soldier Killed by JuliettaBitch(f): 11:44pm On Mar 18, 2016
APC is a scam... Buhari is a failure

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