Former Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Lee Maeba, who is also an ally of the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abukakar, escaped death today, when suspected assailants attacked his residence in Port Harcourt..
Africa Update gathered that the thugs numbering not fewer than 30 attacked Meaba’s residence destroying about 5 cars in the process.
Reacting to the attack, Maeba said the attacker were frantically searching for him when the arrived.
He, however, said a certain man had called him earlier to inform him about the attack which he dismissed.
Maeba said “A young man called me with a number that I don’t know and told me that I have done him a favour before but that I should be careful if I’m at home. That they have an instruction from some quarters to attack my house and attack me and I dismissed that I have no problem with anybody.
“I drove out with my security personnel to see my mother-in-law. As I just entered my mother in-law’s house the next thing my phone was ringing, my nephew just picked up the phone and said our house is under attack.
“They shot at the gate and forced it open. They climbed the second gate and tied up the security man took his phone and entered the compound and were shouting where is he, one bullet will solve this Atiku problem and my senior brother was standing there and they descended on him”.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of police in Rivers State, Effiong Okon said investigation into the matter has commenced.
