Wike Planning To Run Away—Rivers APC

Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has alleged that Nyesom Wike, who was sacked on Saturday by an election tribunal sitting in Abuja as governor of Rivers State, is planning to run away “from facing the wrath of the law for his corrupt practices and for supervising the death of over 100 APC members” during an election.

The party, in a press statement issued on Saturday shortly after the Tribunal’s ruling, said it “reliably” learnt about this information and “appealed to the relevant security agencies to keep close watch on Wike.”

In the statement, signed by its chairman, Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, and made available to Aproko247, the Rivers APC also said the ruling today has “vindicated” the party, boasting that “there is no way under the heavens that Wike can beat our candidate, Dr Dakuku Peterside, in a free and fair election.”

“Though, we were expecting total ban of Nyesom Wike from further participation in the politics of Nigeria seeing the orchestration of the number of death of Rivers State people in order for him to be installed as a Care-Taker Governor all the same we thank the Justice Mohammed Ambrusa-led Tribunal for restoring hope to the downtrodden people of Rivers State who have borne the brunt of Wike’s illegal and visionless administration in the past five months.

“We thank the Tribunal for allowing itself to be used by God to uproot the impostor governor, Nyesom Wike, who has these past five months brought monumental suffering to our people in cahoots with some mischievous and misguided politicians whose only understanding of governance is blackmailing and the looting of our common patrimony,” Rivers APC said.

The party lamented that “Wike’s tragic entry into the Brick House seat of power has only succeeded to bring back criminality in various forms in the once peaceful Rivers State as kidnapping, robbery and organised crimes have being on the increase since his evil arrival.”

“For the first time in the history of our dear State, a government without any vision or blueprint assumed office, thereby collapsing all the systems of governance.

“On 22nd October, 2015, 19 students on the scholarship of the Rivers State Government through its agency, the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) were forced to abandon their studies and return to Nigeria because the State Government had not paid their fees and upkeep in the United Kingdom. Those in Canada and other locations are also expected to return soon for same reasons.

“Earlier this week, the RSUST Chapter of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) went on a protest march and warning strike due to the mindless hiking of fees of the university’s primary and secondary demonstration schools by the clueless Wike administration. Local Government Councils in the State have been unable to pay their staff salaries for August and September while some, such as Opobo/Nkoro, owe their personnel salaries from July 2015 to date.

“In the area of sports, our twin pride Sharks and Dolphins may be relegated from the Nigerian Premier League for the first time in so many years.

“While Wike was busy looting and wasting Rivers State resources in pursuit of his failed project to destroy his benefactor, Rotimi Amaechi, he abandoned governance and now that he has been sent packing, he should summon courage and face the wrath of the law by accounting for the death of our people killed to install him as Care-Taker Governor.”