Mr Wike said a formal invitation was sent to the President-elect after the general elections, which was accepted.
“A tricyclist carrying a dangerous weapon and herders bearing arms cannot be said to be here for business.”
Reacting to the news, Mr Nyekwere said the association was pained that Mr Wali was having such experience a second time.
The information commissioner, Charles Aniagwu, who disclosed this at a news conference in Asaba, said the victims included a 10-year-old boy.
A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Okey Wali, has been kidnapped again in Rivers.
“I can say it loud and clear that the beads and sword I submitted at the palace are fake. I suspected that something like this would happen.”
Also, in units 8, 9 and 10, not many voters came out to cast their votes as INEC officials waited patiently for them.
Past elections in Rivers were marred by electoral violence, including the snatching of ballot boxes.
Mr Ogodo applauded the local government chairman’s proactive peace initiative and vowed to ensure law and order before and after the court judgement.
Firefighters who arrived at the scene late were chased away by hoodlums who looted goods from the billowing inferno.
