Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has debunked speculations that it masterminded the arrest of the Rivers State Secretary to the State Government, Kenneth Kobani, by security operatives on Saturday.
Kobani was apprehended by the military during the rerun election in the state yesterday for allegedly stalling the distribution of electoral materials at a polling unit in his area.
“Why should we mastermind the arrest of Kobani? What is his political relevance? Does his position as SSG place him above the law? Are we the one that asked him to be lawless that warranted his arrest?” the APC asked in a statement issued on Sunday morning in Port Harcourt.
Rivers APC explained that, “We as a political party are orderly and decent group that wants the best for Rivers State.”
“Rotimi Amaechi, who is a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was directed by the DIG Police to vote and leave to his residence and he complied then who is Kobani to be moving around intimidating voters in polling units that he does not belong to? Is it because he belongs to PDP that makes him to be above the law?” the statement queried further.
“He contravened the law and must face the music not minding the rattling of PDP,” the party declared.
The party chided the PDP that, “Maybe very soon, they will accuse us of planting the N40 million, arms, Police and Army uniforms in the car of Cyril Dum Wite, S.A to Gov Nyesom Wike on Special Projects that led to his arrest.”
“Look at the embarrassment and national shame that Wike and PDP have brought to the State for the few months they hold sway in the State. Today we are looked upon as barbarians that behead and burn fellow human beings as if they are goats,” the APC said.
Rivers APC described the PDP in Rivers State as “a lawless society that believes in the manipulation of electoral results and that is why the court could nullify almost all their 2015 electoral victories.” “We are not lawless like PDP to manipulate any result so we urge the general public to discard the fake results being presented by PDP and wait for INEC official results,” the statement said.
The Rivers APC stressed that “we have no hand in either the arrests of Kobani, Wite or beating of Roseline Konya.”
