The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has cancelled his rally in Rivers State.
The rally scheduled for February 14, has been cancelled indefinitely following escalating political violence in the state.
Speaking on the development, Senator Lee Meaba, the state will not hold again because of security reasons.
Meaba said Atiku cancelled the rally to avoid any bloodshed in the state.
In the last couple of weeks, Rivers State has been in the news over attacks on political opponents in the state.
For instance, the latest person to attack in the state was the chairman of PDP presidential campaign council in Rivers, Dr. Abiye Sekibo.
Sekibo accused policemen attached to Rivers Government House of being behind the incident but Governor Nyesom Wike denied it.
Wike had initially revoked the use of Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium as venue of the campaign but he later made a U-Turn, saying some persons had been sent to dialogue with him.
Wike and Atiku have been at loggerheads since the Rivers governor lost the presidential ticket to the former Vice-President.
He and his allies, under the Integrity Group, had distanced themselves from the campaign, giving the resignation of Senator Iyioricha Ayu as the party’s National Chairman as a condition for them to campaign for Atiku, but the party called their bluff.
