The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said
Chief Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is spending his
last days in office as Governor of Rivers State.
The party was reacting to the statement credited to PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, who was quoted as saying about the failure
of PDP and INEC counsels to appear before the Rivers State Governorship
Election Petition Tribunal on Friday, September 18: “Even if our lawyers
and witnesses didn’t appear at the Rivers Tribunal today and the remaining
days, it doesn’t stop us PDP from winning at the judgment. But should we
fail at judgment, we shall win even above 1.5 million votes in Rivers
State re-run Governorship and other elections.”
Rivers APC in a statement issued Monday in Port Harcourt and made
available to NF-Reports by its Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya,
dismissed Metuh’s position as mere day-dreaming.
The party said: “While we do not wish to comment on the likely outcome of
the current sitting of the Rivers Guber Election Tribunal since the case
is sub judice, we find Chief Metuh’s position laughable because the
evidence before the tribunal indicates that Chief Wike is spending his
final days in office as Rivers State Governor. Just like PDP, we as a
political party are equally eagerly looking forward to a re-run of the
Rivers State governorship election. Contrary to the empty boast of Metuh
that PDP shall win even above 1.5 million votes in the envisaged re-run
elections, we make bold to tell him that PDP died in Rivers State the day
former Governor Chibuike Amaechi in November 2013 led all those who
mattered in the party to join the APC and take a front seat in the
vanguard for Nigeria’s political emancipation. We are convinced that our
candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, shall win the expected re-run guber polls
with a landslide as he has the full support of the good people of Rivers
State.”
Rivers APC sympathised with Chief Metuh in his tasking new role as an
unprepared spokesman of the opposition, telling him to prepare for a big
shock as Wike can never be elected by the Rivers State people in any free
and fair election devoid of violence, killing and rigging as Rivers people
do not only know him but also know what he stands for.
“Instead of dreaming of winning the envisaged re-run election, we expect
him (Wike) to explain to the world how he intends to defend the over 100
Rivers people that were murdered to install him as Care-Taker Governor of
Rivers State by greedy INEC REC, Dame Gesila Khana, and other corrupt INEC
officials who cannot defend their immoral and illegal actions of 1.5
million acclaimed voters is bigger than 273,000 accredited voters in the
Register.
“To us, the Biblical book of Hosea Chapter Eight Verse Seven, ‘For They
Have sown the Wind and Shall Reap the Whirlwind’ captures the inescapable
fate of Chief Wike and his collaborators. They have no one else to blame
but themselves, for they have sown the wind and shall reap the whirlwind.”