Chieftain of All Progressives Congress(APC), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has condemned the the recent call by Governor Nyesom wike, urging Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) supporters to fight.
Eze said that it was wrong for the governor to have declared that the general elections in the state will be fight to finish, warning that plunging the state into fight and war portends grievous consequences on Rivers people.
This is as the campaign council of All Progressives Congress has called on the security agencies, particularly the Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command and Director of Department of State Security Services, to call the governor to order to sheath his plan of urging his supporters to fight in the state and called for a peaceful general elections.
In a statement issued in Port Harcourt and signed by its spokesman, Sogbeye Eli, the council alleged that Gov. Wike set the tone for the ongoing political violence, particularly thursday’s unprovoked attack on its governorship campaign rally at Rumuwoji Town in Mile 1, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area by hundreds of armed thugs, with his recent statement and enactment of Executive Orders 21 and 22.
“Without a shred of doubt, the source and principal stimulus of these streak of savage attacks and political banditry on the APC and other opposition parties in Rivers State is the Governor himself. Nyesom Wike set the tone for the ongoing political violence with the enactment of his repressive and dictatorial Executive Orders 21 and 22 which obstructs and constitute infringements on the rights of other political parties and candidates to campaign for votes as allowed by law in Rivers State”.
The council noted that the party will do everything within the law to ensure the protection of lives of APC members.
“An end must be put to these provocative primitive actions or we shall be forced to defend ourselves with every legitimate tool at our disposal”, it stated.
Furthermore,the council alleged that the hoodlums that attacked the campaign rally was led by the Mayor of Port Harcourt City Local Government Council Area, Allwell Ihunwo, and a former Mayor of that Council, Victor Ihunwo, with the aim to maim, kill and disrupt it.
According to it, the incident which left five party faithful with various degrees of severe injuries from the detonation of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), known in the local parlance as dynamite, followed threats by the PDP thugs to lock out the APC from the traditional grounds for the rally.
The council regretted that it has no knowledge of arrest of any suspect even though a formal report has been lodged with the Police authorities at the Mile 1 Police Station.
It said, “given the shocking report on ARISE TV 9pm news last night quoting the Commissioner of Police as categorically denying the attack on our rally with IED, It is clear that the Police Commissioner has more information on this dastardly attack and we hereby place him on notice that we would not only make him give full disclosure for what transpired before, during and after thursday’s incident, we shall not condone any attempt by anyone no matter how highly positioned to undermine the security of lives and properties of members of the Rivers APC”.
It would be recalled that Governor Wike had during the Local Government Campaign Flag-off rally of the Rivers State PDP that held at Felix Obuah Pavilion, Omoku Town in Ogba-Egbema- Ndoni Local Government area (ONELGA) on Monday said that the election will be a fight to finish and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State is going to win all at the end of the day.
“It is a fight to finish. Do not be afraid”, the governor told PDP supporters.
