Ahead of the National and State Assembly rerun elections in Rivers State on Saturday, the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday raised the alarm over an alleged arms build-up by Governor Nyesom Wike.
According to him, there are reports that the governor is involved in the act.
The APC also dismissed reports credited to the governor and the Peoples Democratic Party alleging an assassination plot against Wike.
The statement partly read, “The report by the Rivers State government and the Peoples Democratic Party alleging the withdrawal of Wike’s security aides and an assassination threat on the governor is a hoax meant to deflect attention from the reports of an arms build-up and other sinister plots the Wike-led PDP administration plans to execute on election day.
“Nobody is after Wike. The governor and the PDP’s diversionary and false alarm is hinged on the reality that they will lose the legislative rerun elections once security is tightened in Rivers State.”
It also said, “Again, the PDP and the Rivers State governor are haunted by their horrible past misdeeds. Nigerians recall how Wike, then a PDP minister, used federal institutions to harass, intimidate and threaten the life of perceived political enemies, particularly Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, who was then governor of Rivers State.
“Under Wike’s watch, political thugs and criminal gangs have continued to kill and maim APC members and innocent citizens in Rivers State.”
Attempts to get a reaction from the Rivers State governor were unsuccessful. Calls to the mobile telephone of Wike’s media aide, Simeon Nwakaodu, indicated that it was switched off.
A response to a text message sent to him was still being awaited as of the time of filing this report.
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