Dumo Lulu-Briggs Speaks After He And Accord Party Were Attacked.

 One of the Governorship candidate in Rivers State, Dumo Lulu Briggs, has spoken after he and his Accord party were attacked in their convoy on their way to Etche local Govrnment Area of the state. The candidate spoke about an action that can be put in place to stop the barbaric action of the vandalism and attack on his Accord party convoy while they were going for their campaign on the twenty first of January, two thousand and twenty three.

“After the visit by the "Rivers Debate Group", while speaking to News men about the Saturday, 21st January, 2023 attack on the "Rivers Guber Road Show" train at Igbo-Etche, on measures I think that can be put in place to put a stop to such barbaric act, I simply said, we will allow the law to take its course. That, We have reported the matter to the Police, and the Police commissioner has informed us that he is going to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter, which we want to believe that that will be done, and appropriate actions will be taken.” – Wrote Dumo Lulu Briggs.

According to Dumo, the measure that can be taken to put a stop on the attack of the convoy is by allowing the law to take its course. This method was posted on his official social media page and it got a lot of reactions.

Speaking on his campaign, Lulu Brigs said the next action is to continue with it as they have done. He went further to write and I quote thus:

“That recently we didn't get to Igbo-Etche as we were headed, we didn't go to our campaign office because of the shooting. We didn't want any kind of bloodbath, but we turned around and went to all the other communities in Etche, before we arrived back at our destination.”

"Even today, we were supposed to go to a few other places, tomorrow we will do the same thing, the next day we will do same, so the campaigns are on."

"I told them that we will not be distracted, it's just unfortunate that violence has become a component of our campaigns at this time. Part of what I said to AIT when they spoke to me yesterday, (not ARISE TV, AIT also spoke to me sunday). You see, if you have a Government that say, "as e dey pain dem, e go dey sweet us", it will begin to embolden subordinates, whether or not the leader wants that. It sounds humourous, so you may think that it is something said out of humour. But then the people who are following will begin to think that causing pain on the opponents will probably please my master, and then they do what they do."

"So sometimes these are probably actions of overzealous council chairmen, and I think that what the Governor needs to do now is to rein his people in. I told the news men."

"In our own case it was very clear that this was an organized gang of the Rivers PDP, not anybody else. Because our candidate for House of Assembly, Etche constituency 2, was there in the morning making preparations to put the stage on for our coming to commission our Party Secretariat, speak to the people, said he was there when the Chairman for Revenue collection in Etche and one other guy, I think it was Frank Nwaigwe, came there with these gang of boys and destroyed the entire thing, all the preparation that was done, destroyed our campaign office. In fact basically just made sure that we don't have a campaign office; that was done right before him."

"So, at least we have names that have been given to the Police. These are people that are working directly with the council chairman. Now, we don't know to what extent we can stretch that, and I don't want to do those sort of things, I am a Lawyer by training. I will like to do and say things that I am certain of."

"But I think that the Governor needs to rein his people in. We had gone to Bonny on the 24th of December, 2022, and we were at the market doing what we normally do; go there buy a few things, share with people, it was Christmas time after all."

"So we were buying Garri to share with people and all, when the Local Government Chairman came and said we have to leave the market. First we were told that we can't get into the market because we had Accord dressings and all that, and we had gone to see some persons in our party. We thought that was not to be, but in the end they said okay, not more than fifteenth (15) of us should go in. So, we agreed, they counted and fifteen (15) of us entered the market."

"Even at that, once we started and they saw the excitement of the people at the market; the market women applauding and calling our names, excellency and all of that. I think that it probably just brought out some very dirty instincts in them, and the next thing the council chairperson had to come there to try to stop us, saying that the market was built by the PDP, so we should leave the market."

"Now, they came with their security people, we had our own security team, if we had engaged in any kind of thing, then maybe we would have given a terrible name to ourselves. As very law abiding people, we took the pain and just did a detour, went round, saw a few persons and left Bonny."

"So, this is recurring too much. Even during the pandemic, on no apparel of party, nothing! I, just as a concerned Rivers person who know that some communities have been devastated by the flood, took some relief materials, went to Ahoada to go and deliver the relief materials, and we were stopped."

"That we needed to go and take permission from the PDP council chairman before we could access the IDP camp and give them the relief materials. So, we politicize everything! This is very unfortunate, it shouldn't be! These are elections."

"Two thousand and twenty three is going to be our defining moment in our politics, even Nationally, we need to awaken the Giant. If Africa will arise, then the biggest of her which is Nigeria, will have to be awaken from our slumber."

"So, Nationally and everywhere people are trying to do things. Rivers State should not be known every election circle to be a State where violence must be an integral component of the electioneering. Therefore, all of us right thinking people must come out to comdem what happened to us in Etche. SDP has also made similar complain, the APC has also made similar complain. I am not here to speak on their behalf, because I don't have a detail of what happened in their situations, but I know what happened in my own case and I have made my case very clear."

"In my own case, well, I will not say the Police have failed to act. The commissioner has given his word that he is going to act on it. I tried to call him on phone I couldn't access him, I sent him a text and he responded to my message. So by the Grace of God we'll see how that goes."

"So to your question, "what are we doing Next?" Well, we are waiting for the law to take its course', I told them."

Source credit: Dumo Lulu-Briggs official social media page.