A bomb went off near Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday but there were no casualties
The blast occurred when the court was about to rule on whether elections for certain local government officials earlier this year were legal.
“I think they were trying to disrupt the result … the high court decided that the election was illegal,” Governor Nyesom Wike said.
“It (the blast) was close to the high court, nobody was killed and it didn’t affect the building”, he added.
A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt had dissolved the 22 local government councils in the state.
Justice Lambo Akonbi of the Federal High Court 1, in his ruling said the decision of the administration of former governor Chibuike Amaechi to go ahead with the conduct of the council election on May 23 inspite of a court order asking all parties to maintain status quo is a flagrant abuse of court process and disregard for rule of law.
