Destiny Iganibo, a member of staff of the Rivers State Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Agency (RRMRA), is currently in police net for alleged complicity in the bombing of the residence of Tamunosisi Gogo Jaja, a former commissioner in the state.
Iganibo and another yet to be identified suspect were in the early hours of Friday, February 24, caught in a CCTV footage that has surfaced online, walking around Jaja’s residence.
They stopped at a point and could be seen throwing dynamites at the house, one of which landed on the roof and set off an explosion.
The duo was still allegedly executing their nefarious activity when the police stormed the scene and pursued them.
While one of them was able to escape, Iganibo, a husband of two wives and father of six children, was not that lucky, as he was caught.
Iganibo, who reportedly holds a post graduate degree in Public Administration could be seen with bruises on his legs being interrogated in a video made by Jaja.
It could not be immediately known why Jaja’s residence was targeted but people suspect that it could not be far-fetched from politics.
Rivers State is notorious for volatile politicking, especially now when the soul of the state is torn between the trio of Governor Nyesom Wike, his predecessor, Chibuike Amaechi, who is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Magnus Abe, the gubernatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
Governor Wike, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is at daggers drawn with Amaechi and is leading a rebellion against his own party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
However, the opposition G-5 governors or Integrity Group he is leading seems to have collapsed, as they have gone their separate ways to endorse different candidates for tomorrow’s presidential election.
Although Wike is still to make known his preferred presidential candidate, he has reportedly asked his supporters to vote for the candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for president and PDP members for the National Assembly, as well as in the governorship and State Assembly elections next month.
The bombing of Jaja’s house may be traceable to the complicated nature of the Rivers’ politics, many believe, but everyone is waiting for the results of investigation when Iganibo will have confessed who sent him and why.