The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Tuesday warned that the bomb blasts in Rivers State is a threat to Nigeria's democracy. MURIC's director, Professor Ishaq Akintola said in a statement was  alarmed by this brazen and barbaric attack on the judiciary.

It recalled that there had been two other bomb attacks earlier in the state. Ahoada East High Court was bombed and set ablaze by yet to be identified hoodlums. The High Court was bombed shortly before a case against Hon. Evans Bipi was due to commence. The case which was to be heard by Justice Charles Wali is to seek an injunction seeking to restrain Hon. Bipi from parading himself as the speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

According to MURIC, unknown assailants have bombed the Office of the Deputy Governor of the same state on Tuesday 17th December, 2013. 24 hours later, a second bomb exploded in the office of Justice Charles Wali around 3.00 pm.

The unfolding scenario, it said was not only frightening but senseless and disgusting.

"Nigeria appears torn between fanatical religionists and extremist politicians," it added. It therefore warned the major dramatis personae in Nigeria’s turbulent political waters to go back to the terra firma of  reason before "our ship of state" gets drowned.

It also appealed to all stakeholders to hold the fire and urged elders, particularly all former heads of state, to seize the initiative of reconciling the warring parties in Rivers State.

It called on all men of goodwill to do whatever they could in dousing tension in Rivers State because whatever happens there was bound to ricochet throughout the country. Finally, it reminded the presidency that posterity would not fail to see its fingers in every pie fried in the politics of Rivers State. "True statesmen care more about their country and care less about bruised ego," it said.