Wike’s refusal to honour police panel a bad omen ---Rivers APC
*Governor Nyesom Wike
(Nigeria) The refusal of Rivers State governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, to cooperate with the Panel set up by Inspector-General of Police, IG, Mr Ibrahim Idris to investigate the violence that marred the December 10 legislative rerun elections in the state has been described as a bad omen by the state Progressives Congress, APC.
“This is a direct affront to Federal Government and should be swiftly met with appropriate
response by those whose authority he is challenging so as not to embolden
others to follow his dangerous example,” the state chapter of APC, said.
The party in a statement on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, by
its chairman, Chief Davies Ikanya expressed dismay that Wike has the effrontery
to set up a parallel Commission of Enquiry on the rerun elections.
“By so doing, Wike has clearly crossed the line and should
be put in his proper place by the Federal Government whose powers he is
brazenly challenging,” Ikanya added.
The party alleged that Wike’s sole purpose in setting up the
kangaroo commission was to ridicule APC leaders and makes nonsense of the
efforts by the Police to probe and stop further killings in Rivers State.
“It is laughable and a mockery of civilised procedure for
Wike, whom everybody knows is the brain behind most of the killings and
insecurity in Rivers State, to set up a judicial commission on the said
killings instead of submitting himself to a Federal Panel set up by a neutral
party.
“As much as we respect Justice Chinwendu Nwogu, we pray and
hope that by accepting to chair this kangaroo commission, he will not end up
allowing Wike to ridicule his hard-earned reputation. The truth is that, if the
commission is to be taken serious, it should indict both Wike and the state PDP
Chairman, Mr Felix Obuah, for their belligerent acts that fuelled violence
during the rerun polls.
“We wish to caution all and sundry that Wike’s recent boast
that no force even God can remove him from office shouldn't be taken on its
face value as this is one of his strategies to shout of an attack and later
embark upon another act of hooliganism and mayhem in Rivers State knowing very
well that nobody or agency can call him to order. He has started his plot
against the Ogonis even after the rerun election was successful won by Senate
Magnus Abe to represent South East Senatorial district in the Senate.
“With the killing of nine persons mostly of APC extraction
in (Khana) Ogoni communities at the early hours of today by Wike’s hoodlums
which they intend to replicate in other communities in the State and after to
lay the blame on the Security Agencies in his current plot to discredit the
security agencies, we wish to state once more that Wike has constituted himself
not only as a nuisance but a serious threat to our nascent democracy and if we
continue to treat his case with kid's glove, we as a nation will have ourselves
to be blamed.
“We will like to state that Wike’s unreasonable antagonism
against the present Federal Government under the watch of President Muhammadu
Buhari for reasons best known to him, and for him to sponsor attacks against
agencies of the Federal Government, is irresponsibility taken too far, which
must be condemned by all and sundry. We have shouted ourselves hoarse that Wike
is a threat to the current democracy in our country but it seems that nobody
wants to take us serious.
“We wish to reiterate once again that the continued
treatment of Wike’s excesses with kid gloves is a bad omen which should be
decisively checked before it plunges this country into avoidable chaos.”
Rivers APC said that Wike must submit himself to the Police probe
panel to throw more light on the audio tape in which he was heard allegedly threatening
to kill INEC officials, as well as sponsorship of various acts of violence in
the state.
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