Congress (APC) to use security agencies to rig the forthcoming polls.
Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt today, the Chairman of the
Campaign Council, Governor Nyesom Wike said the APC is confident about
winning because they want to rig.
He stated that the PDP has gathered enough intelligence reports about
the unholy plan and would scuttle it at the appropriate time.
The Chairman who is also the Governor of Rivers State stated that
Governor Godwin Obaseki cannot be described as an ingrate because he has
proven to be a man of character.
“Governor Godwin Obaseki is not an ingrate like Adams Oshiomhole and
Osagie Ize-Iyamu who can do anything including betraying people to grab
power.
“Obaseki is morally qualified and stands out as the best candidate for
the September 19th, 2020 election.
“Edo people cannot support and desire the handover of power to the APC
candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who is a nomadic politician and ingrate
who lacks character.
“It is Oshiomhole who is an ingrate because he told us that Obaseki
served as the brain box of his administration that lasted eight years.
How can such a person become an ingrate?
“Look at Ize-Iyamu, he is an ingrate too. He served as Secretary to the
State Government in Chief Lucky Igbinedion’s administration. When he
didn’t get what he wanted, he dumped the Party and moved to another
Party.
“In 2015, people supported him for the governorship, when he failed,
he did not consult them but abandoned them for another Party.
“That is the life of a nomadic politician. Like his master, they are
dangerously desperate, insatiable and can do anything for power.
“Character and integrity must be the yardstick to elect any candidate in
the Edo election. Edo people must resist the third term agenda of
Oshiomhole.
“For Oshiomhole, the election is a face-saving, do or die venture
having been treated badly in Abuja, “he stated.
Governor Wike stated that Governor Obaseki is not a violent man like
Ize-Iyamu who has instructed the thugs he called “lions and tigers” to
cause the crisis.
He challenged the Police and the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC)
to use the Edo election to correct previous mistakes by conducting free
and fair polls.
“We consider the comment by INEC to cancel or suspend the election
because of violence as succumbing to the antics of the APC.
“All they want is violence because they cannot win the election. If the
election is suspended, the implication is that Obaseki will serve out
his tenure without an election in November.
“I am surprised that APC will support a man it charged to court for
corruption. Such a stance shows that their corruption fight is a farce
and a witch hunt of political opponents.
“Why will APC say that PDP has no justification to demand that Osagie
Ize-Iyamu should go and face his charges before the Economic And
Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC). This is a Party that told Nigerians
in 2015 of its resolve to fight corruption.
“It is also APC that took him to court. Oshiomhole was the one who told
us that Edo people cannot vote for a man who is corrupt. Now they are
saying he is their candidate because he has not been found guilty.
“We are tired of this double standard. They apply the rule differently
to different people,” he said.
Governor Wike urged Nigerians to ask the APC governorship candidate for
Edo election why he refused to attend the Nigeria Law School after he
claimed to have graduated from the University of Benin.