Governor
Wike has accused INEC officials of collaborating with the APC to rig
the forthcoming Rivers re-run election which has been heating up.
Nyesom Wike
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has accused security agencies
of threatening to assassinate him during the December 10 rerun
elections.
But the Police hierarchy in the state, said it was not aware of such threat, according to the Vanguard.
Speaking through Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP
Omoni Nnamdi, the Police said there was no way any security agency would
plan to assassinate the governor, insisting that no such threat had
come from the Police.
“There is no way anybody can plan to kill the governor. He has
paraphernalia of security. Is it the Police, Navy, Army, DSS or Air
Force? Well, I am not aware of such threat,” DSP Omoni said.
However, the governor, who spoke yesterday, in Gokhana Local
Government Area when he flagged off rehabilitation of two General
Hospitals in the area, claimed that security agencies behind the alleged
threat were saying he would be the first governor they would
assassinate in the country.
According to him: “For me, they are threatening that I will be
the first governor they will assassinate. They are threatening that they
will show me that they are security agencies. But, I will always
protect the interest of Rivers State, no matter the threat.”
He called on residents of the area to resist any form of threat
from security agencies on the election day, arguing that he had also
uncovered alleged plot by security agencies to procure fake Police and
army uniforms for political thugs on the Election Day.
The Governor also accused the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC of recruiting members of the All Progressive Congress,
APC, as Assistant Presiding Officers for the election, saying: “INEC
has released a fake list of adhoc staff for the rerun elections before
the conclusion of their mandatory training. Majority of those on the
list are known APC Ward Chairmen and Ward Secretaries who are mainly
unemployed, but listed by INEC as staff of the University of Port
Harcourt."
"They think that my love for peace is a sign of weakness. But I
want to declare that enough is enough. We are supposed to be under an
era of change, but the love for fraud by INEC and Police is
unprecedented."
"Anyone whose son or daughter is on that fraudulent INEC list
should tell him/her to stay away on election day. All these desperate
actions are geared towards the plot to rig in favour of a particular
candidate. But that candidate will not win."
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