THE Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the probe of violent confrontation by security details of Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike and that of Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, in the state capital on Saturday.

Rivers Police Command spokesman Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed this to TheNation Newspaper.

He did not give details about the said investigation.

Convoys of the two men engaged themselves in a violent confrontation along Trans-Amadi road, Nwaja axis, in Port-Harcourt, the state capital.

Both of them are claiming they escaped being assassinated.

The duo has been at loggerheads since Wike took over from Amaechi as Rivers state governor.