Buildings and other property were shattered in the early hours of Saturday as explosives suspected to be dynamite shattered the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress along Aba Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.

The explosion brought down the gate of the secretariat while doors, windows and other property were destroyed.

This is the second time the Chief Tony Okocha-led APC would be experiencing such an attack at its secretariat this year.

This came as the local government elections is set to hold in the state today as the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission said on Friday that all sensitive materials have been distributed to the various local government areas.

A viral video of the incident scene seen by our correspondent showed some workers at the facilities going round to ascertain the extent of damage.

When contacted, the spokespetson for the state police command, Grace Iringe-Koko, said she had yet to get a report on it but promised to revert.

The party has yet to make a statement on the incident.

Bristol Tamunobifiri, popularly known by his X name PIDOM, has been released from the Kuje correctional centre in Abuja.

Tamunobifiri regained his freedom on Friday after he perfected his bail conditions.

Omoyele Sowore, an activist, shared images of the whistleblower outside the Kuje prison on his X handle on Friday.

Last Friday, Emeka Nwite, a judge at the federal high court in Abuja, granted PIDOM N5 million bail with one surety in like sum.

Nwite said the surety must be a resident of Abuja and depose to an affidavit of means.

He said the surety must also provide evidence of three years of tax clearance with two passport-sized photographs.

The judge also ruled that the defendant must deposit his passport with the court.

PIDOM was arraigned on September 3, on a nine-count charge brought against him by Olukayode Egbetokun, the inspector-general of police.

He was accused of “mobilising and soliciting support to unduly compel the government to act or abstain from certain acts through the #EndBadGovernance protest”.

The police said the whistleblower allegedly laundered N970,000 deemed to be “proceeds of an unlawful act”.

In August, the police said the whistleblower was arrested at his hotel room in Rivers.

The police added that PIDOM was arrested for “committing serious offences that undermine the integrity of government operations”.

Tony Okocha, ex-chairman of the caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers, has admitted to election rigging.

Okocha served as chief of staff to Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers, from 2007 to 2015.

Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Thursday, Okocha said he should be praised for publicly confessing to manipulating votes in the past.

“Yes, I didn’t hide. I should be praised as a whistleblower. If you were an armed robber yesterday and today you come here to say you stole somewhere someday, are you saying that the law will now take retroactive effect? The answer is no,” he said.

“When you have an idea of a thing and you see the other person also wants to use the same tactics that are very known to you, you would shout.

“All of us were together (in the rigging business) including those now on the other side.”

Okocha claimed that Emeka Beke, chairman of the APC in Rivers, also partook in the unlawful act — a claim Beke immediately refuted.

“Are you saying that under Ameachi administration, you never participated?” Okocha asked Beke.

“I did not partake in any election rigging whatsoever. Please don’t get me involved. I’m not part of that. You rigged the election. We are going to ask the police to arrest you because you rigged elections,” Beke said.

The APC in Rivers has been polarised ahead of the forthcoming local government election in the state.

In August, a state high court presided by Sika Aprioku sacked Okocha as chair of the caretaker committee.

Some members of the party, including Sam Etetegwung, Banarth Ezemoye and others, had filed a suit asking that Beke’s executive be reinstated after they were suspended and subsequently removed from office by the national leadership of the APC.

Justice Aprioku had issued an injunction restraining the Okocha-led committee from distracting the Beke leadership, pending the expiration of their four-year tenure.

The court also ordered the national leadership of the APC to recognise Beke as the authentic leader of the party in Rivers.